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Journal articles on the topic "Zen koan"

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Gong, Anping. "Koan and its implementation in V. Pelevin's prose." Litera, no. 8 (August 2024): 264–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.25136/2409-8698.2024.8.71565.

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The philosophical thought of Zen Buddhism is widely used in the work of Victor Pelevin, it becomes an integral element of his early works. The most important and typical feature of Zen Buddhism is the use of "koan" to understand the philosophical thought of Zen Buddhism. The original meaning of the word "koan" is a judicial document of the ancient Chinese government. Later, the term "koan" was borrowed by Zen Buddhism, and its content is usually a story about a Zen master, a dialogue between the master and his disciples, questions and hints from the master. This article examines the implementa
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Grenard, Jerry. "The Phenomenology of Koan Meditation in Zen Buddhism." Journal of Phenomenological Psychology 39, no. 2 (2008): 151–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156916208x338774.

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AbstractZen students described their experiences when working with koans, and a phenomenological method was used to identify the structure of those experiences. Zen koans are statements or stories developed in China and Japan by Zen masters in order to help students transform their conscious awareness of the world. Eight participants including 3 females and 5 males from Southern California with 1 to 30 years of experience in Zen answered open-ended questions about koan practice in one tape-recorded session for each participant. Reflection yielded the following thematic clusters: (a) motivation
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Wattimena, Reza A. A. "MENGGOYANG AKAL, MENGGAPAI INTUISI Kajian Kritis atas Metode Koan dan Zazen di dalam Tradisi Zen." Jurnal Ledalero 14, no. 2 (2015): 306. http://dx.doi.org/10.31385/jl.v14i2.20.306-331.

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Zen is a way of understanding our true self as human before any concept is produced by the thinking mind. This true self can be perceived, when we let go all of forms of concepts and abstractions, and move to the realm of intuition. In this sense, intuition is direct experience of reality without the mediation of any kind of concepts or abstractions. The Zen tradition offers two ways to help people achieve this state of mind, namely Zazen (sitting meditation) and Koan (interview with the Zen Master). The awareness of the true self, or intuition, can be seen also as the state of enlightenment.
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Smith, Tara B. M. "The Ox’s Tail." Journal for the Academic Study of Religion 37, no. 3 (2024): 320–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/jasr.27044.

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Frank Herbert’s Dune novels are suffused with Zen concepts that support his belief in ecology in two major ways. Firstly, Herbert’s reflections on the novels in key interviews make explicit that he consciously uses the trope of Zen philosophy to explore and prosecute the case for environmentalism and ecology. And secondly, the series is replete with structural elements and literary motifs that are a homage to core Zen teachings and reinforce the ecological themes of the work. Thematic explorations of the importance of balance between the spiritual and physical elements of human life are repres
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Novikova, Olga, and Irina Rodicheva. "Comparative Analysis of Zen Philosophy: Rinzai and Soto." Ideas and Ideals 14, no. 4-1 (2022): 83–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.17212/2075-0862-2022-14.4.1-83-97.

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The practical methods of studying Zen, known as ‘pure zazen’ and the ‘koan method’ of the Buddhist schools of Rinzai and Soto are subjected to comparative analysis. This study focuses on the comprehension of Zen philosophy, and also analyzes the basic attitudes regarding the difference from the old Buddhist schools in Japan: practical activity, self-improvememt and indifference to death come first, as well as new aesthetic norms and ideals. Simplicity, the absence of any authority, the absence of rituals and anti-intellectualism corresponded to the spirit of the era when the once unshakable mo
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Heine, Steven. "Does the Koan Have Buddha-Nature?: The Zen Koan as Religious Symbol." Journal of the American Academy of Religion LVIII, no. 3 (1990): 357–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lviii.3.357.

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Cho, Myungje. "The impact of Buddhism on society during the Goryeo period." Impact 2022, no. 5 (2022): 46–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.21820/23987073.2022.5.46.

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Professor Myungje Cho has been studying the impact of Buddhism on society during the Goryeo period. In his current research, he is exploring the significance of the History of Thought by reorganising the flow and character of Goryeo Buddhism as East Asian Buddhism and the History of Thought. Cho has shown that while Goryeo Buddhism demonstrated some influence from Song's Zen philosophy, it also maintained its own independent characteristics. In his analysis, Cho showed that the two phases of Goryeo’s adoption of Koan Zen, the spread of Wenzi Chan during the period of the 12th to 13th centuries
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Barrett, T. H. "The Koan: Texts and Contexts in Zen Buddhism. Edited by Steve Heine and Dale Wright." Buddhist Studies Review 19, no. 2 (2002): 208–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/bsrv.v19i2.14377.

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The Koan: Texts and Contexts in Zen Buddhism. Edited by Steve Heine and Dale Wright. Oxford University Press, New York 2000. xii, 322 pp. £30.00 (hbk), 13.95 (pbk). ISBN (hbk) 0-19-511748-4, (pbk) 0-19-511749-2.
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Loy, David. "A Zen Cloud? Comparing Zen "Koan" Practice with "The Cloud of Unknowing"." Buddhist-Christian Studies 9 (1989): 43. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1390000.

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Timmerman, Peter. "Boundary Matters: Buddhism and the Genetic Prospect." Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology 14, no. 1 (2010): 68–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853510x498069.

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AbstractThis paper considers genetic engineering in the context of Buddhist ethics. Rather than considering a standard set of ethical approaches, this paper instead uses the “fox koan” of Zen Buddhism to explore the dynamics and consequences of the “genetic project”. Focussing particularly on the prospect of an unbounded and unlimited dissolution of hitherto assumed boundaries, it argues that current “disembedding” of genetic information is analogous to the denial of karma as presented in the fox koan. This provides a different entry into ethical evaluation from a Buddhist perspective,
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Zen koan"

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Peshek, Brian. "Zen Masters at Play and on Play: A Take on Koans and Koan Practice." [Kent, Ohio] : Kent State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=kent1245605316.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Kent State University, 2009.<br>Title from PDF t.p. (viewed March 3, 2010). Advisor: Jeffrey Wattles. Keywords: Zen; Chan; Ch'an; Play; Koan; gongan; kung-an; kōan; Blue Cliff Record; Biyanlu; Pi yan lu; Hekiganroku; Wumenguan; Wu-men kuan; Mumonkan; Xuedou Qiongxian; Hsüeh-tou Ch'ung-hsien; Setchō Jūken; Yuanwu Keqin; Yuan-wu K'o-ch. Includes bibliographical references (p. 89-95).
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Licha, Kigensan Stephan. "The imperfectible body : esoteric transmissions in medieval Sōtō Zen Buddhism." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.594108.

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Smith, Derek Wesley. "108 Kōans." OpenSIUC, 2013. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/1161.

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The capacity for creative thought is of utmost importance for the survival and furtherance of humanity. Luckily, creative thought is the most essential aspect of humanity; it is what defines us. Unfortunately, we have created a society that tries to make us forget that. I am building a body of work that encourages mindfulness and heightens awareness. Awareness of self and mindfulness in everyday activities are prerequisites to social and spiritual evolution. I want nothing less than to expand human consciousness. 108 Kōans occurred over a period of time that I devoted to maintaining a "begin
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Wyant, Patrick Henry. "NOT FALLING, NOT OBSCURING: DOGEN AND THE TWO TRUTHS OF THE FOX KOAN." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2013. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/214766.

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Religion<br>M.A.<br>Within recent Japanese Buddhist scholarship there is a debate over the interpretation of Karmic causality evidenced in the 75 and 12 fascicle editions of Dogen's Shobogenzo, one salient example being that found in the daishugyo and shinjin inga fascicles on the fox koan from the mumonkon. At issue is whether a Buddhist of great cultivation transcends karmic causality, with the earlier daishugyo promoting a balanced perspective of both "not falling into" and "not obscuring" causality, while shinjin inga instead strongly favors the latter over the former. Traditionalists inte
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Lung-Fei, Sung, and 宋隆斐. "A Comparative Study of the Koans in theCollections of Odes to Zen Ancient Lenzhu Koansand the Koans in Five Kinds of “One HundredOdes to Ancient Koans” in Sung Dynasty." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/98149999241788913759.

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博士<br>玄奘大學<br>中國語文學系碩博士班<br>101<br>The core issues of this thesis are as follows: When “the odes to ancient koans” rise widely and are extensively used as the key component of “Koan Zen,” what kinds of koans are the most popular? Would those be highly relevant to the koans in the selections of “one hundred odes to ancient koans” in Sung Dynasty? The koans and the odes to ancient koans discussed here primarily come from the Collection of Odes to Zen Ancient Lenzhu Koans. The most popular and representative koans chosen here are based on the numbers appearing in the odes and are presented as th
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Books on the topic "Zen koan"

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Tyson, Matthew. Four zen koan. GEFN Press, 1985.

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Daido, Loori John, ed. Sitting with koans: Essential writings on Zen koan introspection. Wisdom PublIcations, 2005.

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Chu, Shui-hsiang. Zen from hundred mountains. S.H. Chu, 1987.

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Leggett, Trevor. The warrior Kōans: Early Zen in Japan. Arkana, 1985.

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Huikai. The gateless gate: A collection of Zen koan. Red and Black Publishers, 2008.

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1950-, Heine Steven, and Wright Dale S, eds. The Koan: Texts and contexts in Zen Buddhism. Oxford University Press, 2000.

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Huikai. Unlocking the Zen koan: A new translation of the Zen classic Wumenguan. North Atlantic Books, 1997.

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1894-1974, Shibayama Zenkei, Shimano Eidō 1932-, and Lewis Robert E, eds. The book of the Zen grove: Phrases for Zen practice. 2nd ed. Zen Sangha Press, 1996.

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Manuela, Dunn-Mascetti, Barrett Timothy Hugh, Huikai 1183-1260, and Yuanwu 1063-1135, eds. Koans: The lessons of Zen. Hyperion, 1996.

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Otobe, Kaihō. Zenmon kōan taisei: Kosoku zenshū. Kokusho Kankōkai, 1986.

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Book chapters on the topic "Zen koan"

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Ogawa, Takashi, Akihiko Masuda, and Kayla Sargent. "Zen and Language: Zen Mondo and Koan." In Handbook of Zen, Mindfulness, and Behavioral Health. Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54595-0_8.

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Yu, Tianyuan, and Albert J. Mills. "Zen Koan Pedagogy: A Spiritual Approach to Management Education." In Faith Traditions and Practices in the Workplace Volume II. Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09540-5_7.

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Matsuyama, Daiko. "The Role and the Present Significance of Koans." In Handbook of Zen, Mindfulness, and Behavioral Health. Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54595-0_6.

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"Introduction: The Koan Is My Koan." In Zen Koans. University of Hawaii Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9780824847906-003.

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"Appendix: Koan Case Catalog." In Zen Koans. University of Hawaii Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9780824847906-010.

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Heine, Steven, and Dale S. Wright. "Introduction Koan Tradition: Self-Narrative And Contemporary Perspectives." In The Kōan. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195117486.003.0001.

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Abstract The term kōan (C. kung-an, literally “public cases”) refers to enigmatic and often shocking spiritual expressions based on dialogical encounters between masters and disciples that were used as pedagogical tools for religious training in the Zen (C. Ch’an) Buddhist tradition. This innovative practice is one of the best-known and most distinctive elements of Zen Buddhism. Originating in Tang/Sung China, the use of koans spread to Vietnam, Korea, and Japan and now attracts international attention. What is unique about the koan is the way in which it is thought to embody the enlightenment
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Hori, G. Victor Sogen. "Koan And Kensho In The Rinzai Zen Curriculum." In The Kōan. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195117486.003.0012.

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Abstract According to a widely accepted model, a koan is a clever psychological device designed to induce satori or kensho. The koan is said to pose to the Zen practitioner a paradox unsolvable by the rational, intellectualizing mind. Driven into an ever more desperate corner by his repeated futile attempts to solve what cannot be rationally solved, the practitioner finally breaks through the barrier of rational intellection to the realm of preconceptual and prelinguistic consciousness variously called pure consciousness, no-mind, without-thinking, or emptiness. This breakthrough is called sat
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"The Koan and Sanzen: Kyoto, 1974." In Zen and the Brain. The MIT Press, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/7347.003.0033.

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"The Zen Koan: Speaking the Unspeakable." In The Zen Impulse and the Psychoanalytic Encounter. Routledge, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203883464-9.

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"A Quest for ‘‘No’’ Answers: Koan, Huatou, Jakugo, Mondo." In Zen-Brain Reflections. The MIT Press, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/7348.003.0032.

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Conference papers on the topic "Zen koan"

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Anping, Gong. "THE CONCEPTS OF “ANAGAMA BUDDHA” AND “CLAY MACHINE GUN” IN THE NOVEL «CHAPAEV AND VOID» BY V. PELEVIN IN THE VIEW OF ZEN BUDDHISM." In VIII International Conference “Russian Literature of the 20th-21st Centuries as a Whole Process (Issues of Theoretical and Methodological Research)”. LCC MAKS Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.29003/m3718.rus_lit_20-21/169-171.

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The philosophy of Zen Buddhism occupies a very important place in V. Pelevin’s prose. The novel «Chapaev and Void» is a Zen novel that tells the story of the enlightenment process of Peter the Void. Chapaev plays the role of a Zen master, imitating or creating koans to inspire Peter the Void. The original meaning of the word “koan” is a judicial document of the ancient Chinese government. Later, the term “koan” was borrowed from Zen Buddhism, and its content is usually a story about a Zen master, a dialogue between the master and his students, questions and hints from the master. The story of
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Parbat, Adarsh Narayan. "Quietude and Loving-Kindness in Daily Life: Interpreting Zen Koans." In 5th World Conference on Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences and Education. Eurasia Conferences, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.62422/978-81-968539-1-4-016.

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Engaging with a distinctive interdisciplinary methodology that integrates the psychoanalytic theories of Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, W.R. Bion, D.W. Winnicott and Heinz Kohut with the philosophical insights of D.T. Suzuki and Nishida Kitaro, the paper investigates the themes and motifs of quietude and loving-kindness in daily life through the analysis of Zen koans. The paper inquires the psychological and existential dimensions of quietude and loving-kindness, two qualities greatly revered in Zen Buddhism and increasingly acknowledged for their therapeutic value in the modern world. The paper en
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