Zen Talks on the "Record of Linji" - Tapa dura

This title provides English translations of 22 of Hisamatsu Shin'ichi's Zen teisho (Dharma talks) from the classical Zen text Record of Linji. It should appeal to both scholars and a more general audience of those interested in Buddhism and Japanese culture.

This book brings together two giants of the history of Zen: Linji (Japanese, Rinzai) and Hisamatsu Shin'ichi. Linji is looked upon as the founder of the Rinzai sect in Japan. Hisamatsu was a leading twentieth century master/thinker who lived in Kyoto and was a tremendous influence on the development of the Kyoto school of Japanese philosophy. The translators and editors have translated twenty-two of Hisamatsu's Zen teisho (Dharma talks, in effect, sermons for Zen practitioners) of a classical Zen text, the Record of Linji, the recorded sayings of the Chinese founder of Rinzai Zen.