Zen and Zen Classics, History of Zen. Volume Two.
Japan: The Hokuseido Press, 1968. Second Printing. Hardcover. Small octavo. xii + 212pp. Publisher's brown cloth with black lettering to spine and upper cover. B&w frontis and illustrations with printed tissue guards, index. Reginald Horace Blyth (1898 – 1964) was an English author, poet and student of Zen Buddhism under D. T. Suzuki. Blyth is best known for his writings on Zen, this being the secondvolume in the "Zen and Zen Classics" series, a series on various aspects of Zen, each volume of which was published separately as a stand-alone title. Chapter Titles: The five sects; Gozu Zen and Ro¯an Zen; Eno and his disciples (Jinshu, Kutta Sanzo, Genkaku, Kataku, Seigen, Nangaku, Sekito); Sekito's disciples I (Tanka, Daiten, Choshi, Sekishitsu); Sekito's disciples II (Tenno, Ryotan, Tokusan, Ganto¯, Meisho, Razan, Zuigan); Seppo; Seppo's disciples I (Gensha, Rakan, Ankoku, Taigen); Seppo's disciples II (Chokei, Kyosei, Hofuku); Hogen; Hogen's disciples; Yakusan to Sekiso (Ungan-Dogo); Sensu, Kassan, Shozan; Tozan; Sozan and Ungo; Ummon I; Ummon II; Ummon III; The Sandokai; The Hokyozammai; The poems of Hanshan I; The poems of Hanshan II; Zen, mysticism, existentialism; Ways and the way ; Nature, human nature, the Buddha nature, the poetic nature; Defects of Zen. Very light shelf rubbing to edges and points, bookplate on front pastedown and inkstamp on front blank, booksellers label rear pastedown, pages toned but unmarked. Overall a tight, clean better than VG copy in near VG dust jacket (Dust jacket a bit darkened with some discolouration, all edges lightly chafed, creased and clipped, not price clipped). Item #63498
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