About the Book: The Zen Teaching of Huang-Po: On the Transmission of Mind
This complete translation of the original collection of sermons, dialogues, and
anecdotes of Huang Po, the illustrious Chinese master of the Tang Dynasty,
allows the Western reader to gain an understanding of Zen from the original
source, one of the key works in its teachings; it also offers deep and often
startling insights into the rich treasures of Eastern thought. Nowhere is the
use of paradox in Zen illustrated better than in the teaching of Huang Po, who
shows how the experience of intuitive knowledge that reveals to a man what he is
cannot