Getting the Buddha Mind:
On the Practice of Chan Retreat

By Master Sheng-Yen

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145 pages

Chan transcends knowledge, symbols, and all the apparatus of language. You may call Chan ‘emptiness’ but it is not emptiness in the nihilistic sense

An introduction to the practice of meditation retreat in the Chan tradition and a selection of Sheng Yen’s retreat talks.

About: East Asian Buddhism Buddhist Meditation

Translated by Mind Yee Wang, Paul Kennedy, and Karen Swaine. Published in 1982 (Ernest Heau ed.) by Dharma Drum, Elmhurst, NY.

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