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The Morning Star: New and Selected Zen Writings

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Morning Star: New and Selected Zen Writings
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Robert Aitken
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:320
Dimensions(mm): Height 228,Width 139
Category/GenreBuddhism
ISBN/Barcode 9781593760014
ClassificationsDewey:294.3444
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Counterpoint
Imprint Counterpoint
Publication Date 1 October 2003
Publication Country United States

Description

Having practiced zazen for more than half a century, Robert Aitken sits today as the senior American Roshi, a teacher of broad reputation and consequence, who numbers as his own teachers and associates some of the legendary figures of Japanese and American Buddhism. His serendipitous beginning as a Buddhist resulted from being a civilian prisoner of the Japanese in the Second World War, where he found R. R. Blythe, the great haiku master, and D.T. Suzuki, the most important and popular chronicler of Zen in English, as fellow detainees. After the war he returned to Japan on several occasions to study in traditional monastic settings. He has been a leader of the contemporary move to establish Zen Buddhism in the West and was a founding member of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship. With material never before collected in book form, The Morning Star includes writings from his first book, A Zen Wave, and from eight collections of essays and poems published over the last three decades. The introduction to this volume offers Robert Aitken's latest presentation of Zen practice, addressing the Great Matter from a historical and personal perspective.

Author Biography

Robert Aitken is the author of more than a dozen books about Buddhism, including A Zen Wave, Encouraging Words, and Taking the Path of Zen. A dedicated Buddhist for most of his life, he is a former abbot and roshi of the Honolulu Diamond Sangha in Hawaii, which he co-founded with his late wife Anne Hopkins Aitken in 1959. He now lives in retirement at the Palolo Zen Center in Honolulu.