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1st edition Title: Zen Dust: The History of the Koan and Koan Study in Rinzai (Lin-Chi) Zen

Authors: Isshū Miura and Ruth Fuller Sasaki

Publisher: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., New York (A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book)

Publication details: Copyright 1966, first edition, printed in the United States of America; Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 66-10044.

Format: Hardcover volume with red-orange cloth boards and matching salmon-colored printed dust jacket.

Subject/Topic: Zen; koan history and practice; Rinzai (Lin-chi) Zen Buddhism; religion and spirituality.

Language: English

Country of origin: United States of America

Contents overview: Part One presents Ruth F. Sasaki's study of the history of the koan in Chinese and Japanese Zen; Part Two offers Isshū Miura Roshi's account of koan study in Rinzai Zen, translated by Sasaki and including sections such as The Four Vows, Seeing into One's Own Nature, the Hossin and Kikan koans, and other koan series.

Further contents: Part Three contains selections from A Zen Phrase Anthology translated by Sasaki, drawings by Hakuin Ekaku, extensive notes, and a detailed explanatory bibliography of classical and modern works on Zen.

Appendices: Maps of Zen sites in China and Japan, tables of Chinese dynasties and Japanese eras, genealogical charts of Zen lines including early Chinese, Nan-yüeh and Kuei-yang, Lin-chi (Rinzai) and related branches, Hakuin, and Dōgen (Japanese Sōtō) lines, followed by a general index.

Special attributes: First edition Harcourt, Brace & World hardcover with dust jacket, illustrated with reproductions of drawings by Hakuin along with genealogical charts, maps, and indexes; pre-ISBN era with no ISBN, UPC, or modern barcode present.

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