Zen's Chinese Heritage The Masters and Their Teachings

Zen's Chinese Heritagesurveys twenty-five generations of enlightened Buddhist teachers through brief biographies and starkly beautiful prose and poetry from Chinese Zen sources. Andrew Ferguson moves chronologically through successive generations of Zen masters, supplementing their core teachings with history, biography, and poetry. The result is an organic understanding of the tradition's evolution as a religious, literary, and historical force. Capturing the austere beauty of the Zen masters' manner of teaching their earthy style, humor, and humanity Zen's Chinese Heritageis an intimate and profound human portrait of the enlightened Zen ancients, and an unprecedented look into the depths of this rich cultural heritage. The book includes a deluxe fold-out lineage chart of the Zen ancestors.Ferguson, Andy is the author of 'Zen's Chinese Heritage The Masters and Their Teachings', published 2000 under ISBN 9780861711635 and ISBN 0861711637.