Zen's Chinese Heritage: The Masters and Their Teachings

Zen's Chinese Heritage traces twenty-five generations of inlightened Buddhist teachers, supplementing their core teachings with history, biography, and poetry. The result is an intimate and profound human portrait of the enlightened Zen ancients, and an unprecedented look into the depths of the rich cultural heritage.

In this new edition with even more valuable material, Ferguson surveys generations of Zen masters, moving chronologically through successive generations of ancestral teachers, supplementing their core teachings with history, biography, and starkly beautiful poetry. In addition to giving the reader the engaging sense of the "family history" of Zen, this uniquely valuable book paints a clear picture of the tradition's evolution as a religious, literary, and historical force.

• The Platform Sutra: The Zen Teaching of Hui-neng
• Complete Poison Blossoms from a Thicket of Thorn: The Zen Records of Hakuin Ekaku
• The Mountains and Waters Sutra: A Practitioner's Guide to Dogen's "Sansuikyo"
• Treasury of the True Dharma Eye: Zen Master Dogen's Shobo Genzo
• The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma (English and Chinese Edition)
• The Hidden Lamp: Stories from Twenty-Five Centuries of Awakened Women
• The Diamond Sutra
• The Heart Sutra
• The Awakening of Faith: Attributed to Asvaghosha (Translations from the Asian Classics)
• The Lankavatara Sutra: Translation and Commentary