John Daido Loori, Author . Shambhala $11.95 (104p) ISBN 978-1-57062-951-8
Influential Zen Buddhist teacher Loori, abbot of Zen Mountain Monastery in New York, offers a clear commentary on "The Ox-herding Pictures," a traditional series of (usually) 10 pictures from 12th-century Chinese Zen master Kuoan accompanied
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John Daido Loori, Author . Ballantine $25.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-345-46201-5
"Naturalness, spontaneity, and playfulness are all aspects of the ordinary mind that catches a glimpse of the world of things just as they are," writes Loori, the founder and abbot of Zen Mountain Monastery, in the Catskill Mountains. Loori,
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John Daido Loori, Author . Shambhala $12.95 (97p) ISBN 978-1-59030-459-4
This deeper look at the precepts of Buddhism strives to eliminate the misconception that Zen is just a form of meditation, putting it forward as a philosophy of day-to-day, minute-to-minute living. The book is fashioned like a primer, divided into...
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John Daido Loori, Author . Shambhala $14 (112p) ISBN 978-1-59030-479-2
Loori, the revered and celebrated founder and abbot of Zen Mountain Monastery in New York, has authored numerous books on Zen Buddhist practice (The Eight Gates of Zen
). In this ultraslim illustrated primer, Loori distills that experience and...
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John Daido Loori, Author Dharma Communications $44.5 (184p) ISBN 978-1-882795-11-6
As explained in the foreword to this beautiful book, there is an ancient Zen practice of incorporating san, or a short text, within zenga, or Zen paintings traditionally done with ink and brush. The author of the foreword and book is the abbot of...
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John Daido Loori, Author Tuttle Publishing $16.95 (392p) ISBN 978-0-8048-3012-6
In this masterful study, Zen teacher Loori, abbot of Zen Mountain Monastery in upstate New York, lucidly demonstrates the power of the koan (a poetic riddle that, lacking a logical answer, disrupts the reason of the hearer so that enlightenment may...
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John Daido Loori, Author, Bonnie Myotai Treace, Editor, Konrad Ryushin Marchaj, Editor . Shambhala $15.95 (304p) ISBN 978-1-57062-952-5
Loori (Riding the Ox Home: Stages on the Path of Enlightenment) is the abbot of the Zen Mountain Monastery in the Catskills, a former photographer and a writer for mainstream Buddhist publications such as Tricycle
and Shambhala Sun. As such he is...
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John Daido Loori, Author, Bonnie Myotai Treace, Editor, Konrad Ryushin Marchaj, Editor Tuttle Publishing $18.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-8048-3078-2
What does it mean to become a Zen Buddhist? How does one enter the way? What kind of training is required? To answer such questions, few are better equipped than Loori, abbot of the Zen Mountain Monastery in Mt. Tremper, N.Y., and founder and...
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