"Book of Serenity " is a translation of "Shoyo Roku," a collection of one
hundred Zen koans with commentaries that stands as a companion to the other
great Chinese koan collection, the "Blue Cliff Record ""(Pi Yen Lu). " A classic
of Chan (Chinese Zen) Buddhism, "Book of Serenity " has been skillfully rendered
into English by the renowned translator Thomas Cleary.
Compiled in China in the twelfth century, the "Book of Serenity " is, in the
words of Zen teacher Tenshin Reb Anderson, "an auspicious peak in the mountain
range of Zen literature, a subtle flowing stream in the deep valleys of our
teaching, a