Timeless Spring: A Soto Zen Anthology [Paperback]

Thomas Cleary (Author)

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Text: English, Japanese (translation)

Product Details

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: Wheelwright Publishing; 1st edition (September 1980)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0834801485
• ISBN-13: 978-0834801486
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,220,866 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Thomas Cleary is the preeminent translator of classic Eastern texts, including The Essential Tao, The Essential Confucius, The Secret of the Golden Flower, and the bestselling The Art of War.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A superb collection of translations from the essential texts of Soto Zen, August 3, 2008

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Ted Biringer "Author of The Flatbed Sutra of ... (Anacortes, Washington United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Timeless Spring: A Soto Zen Anthology (Paperback)

Thomas Cleary's, Timeless Spring, is a superb collection of translations from the essential texts of Soto Zen. The Soto Zen teachings offered in these pages combine the eloquence of gifted speech and the force unlearned authority.

The records of the Soto masters forego any pretense to watered down guidance and deliver their message of Zen message in profound, unmediated terms from the very cliff edge of the limitations of language. Thomas Cleary's translations here, like all his translations, are exceptional.

Without sacrificing either the letter or the spirit, Mr. Cleary makes the records of these seminal Zen masters accessible to English readers with all the clarity and force of the original. Demonstrating his usual high standard of scholarship, Thomas Cleary's provides an in-depth introduction and extensive notes for each section.