Welcome to the Zen for the punkabbestia repository.

What this site is about:

Zen Buddhism

Zen Visual Art

Zen Gardens

Zen Poetry

Zen History

Zen Tea Ceremony

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About ZEN

Zen is a form of Mahayana Buddhism that places great importance on moment-by-moment awareness and 'seeing deeply into the nature of things' by direct experience.

History

Zen teachings and practices

Zazen

The teacher

Koan practice

Zen Koans

SHôYôROKU (Book of Equanimity)

Shaseki-shu (Collection of Stone and Sand)

The Gateless Gate

Sources: see Essential Zen Links above

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Essential Zen Links:

http://www.thezensite.com/MainPages/koan_studies.html

http://www.ashidakim.com/zenkoans/zenindex.html

http://www.ibiblio.org/zen/cgi-bin/koan-index.pl