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Wisdom of the Zen Masters

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If you are a fan of his other works that convert Eastern literature, riligion, and philosophy into an entertaining and reliable comic format, you will also love this book. I agree with others that it is not as engaging as his first Zen book. Presumably, this is because of the Zen literature used for the books, and not some nuance of his performance. If you don't have the first book ("Zen Speaks") then get that and read it first. If that one left you wanting more, as it did for many of us, then pick up this book- you'll enjoy it.

Just getting started on your desire to understand eastern philosophies? Have you stood at the bookstore for hours pouring over where to start and what to buy?

Any of this authors books are a wonderful place to start. The reason? Because these books are all about the title subject in a nutshell, easy to read as a comic book, the story lines and illustrations are wonderful, and after you read this as well as all the other books by Tsai, you will have a great, well rounded start on your path and will know what you want to study more deeply!

To add, when others ask you about your interest in eastern philosophy, you can get them started here as well, because these books are fun, consise, and you know they will enjoy them over and over again!

The artwork is amazing of course, but the book's structure seems a lot more chaotic than Chung's other works. The material is a bit more confusing as well....but it is still excellent.

Item received in great shape and as advertised. It came in short amount of time. Looking forward to reading it. Thank you!

i would like to buy this book but i think the price is a typo.

I have several of the boks from this series and I do like most of them - apart from this one. This book contains the more idiosyncratic Zen stories. The main problem is that if you haven't understood those stories before you might not really understand them after having read this book. This is mainly due to the stories' nature and, of course, not due to the way the artist presents them. I did know some but not all of the stories before I read this book. I found that the ones I knew were presented in a nice way but I had doubts the comics made them clear. So if you want to learn more about Zen you might want to get the "Shouts of Nothingness" book from the same series and another book, maybe one by Suzuki. Zen is a hard topic to talk/write about in the first place and putting the hardest bits into a format like this doesn't really seem to work.

PS: If you understand the stories why would you want to read any book about them anyway?