Title:
Mystics and Zen masters.
Author:
Publication Date:
1967
Publication Information:
New York, Farrar, Strauss and Giroux c1967.
Physical Description:
x, 303 p. 22 cm.
ISBN:
9780374520014
General Note:
"Essential work from one of the twentieth century's greatest spiritual thinkers"--cover.
Contents:
Mystics and Zen masters -- Classic Chinese thought -- Love and Tao -- The Jesuits in China -- From pilgrimage to crusade -- Virginity and humanism in the Western fathers -- The English mystics -- Self-knowledge in Gertrude More and Augustine Baker -- Russian mystics -- Protestant monasticism -- Pleasant Hill -- Contemplation and dialogue -- Zen Buddhist monasticism -- The Zen Koan -- The other side of despair -- Buddhism and the modern world.
Language:
English
