Book Summary
This is the first detailed English-language study of the Obaku branch of Japanese Zen. Beginning with the founding of the sect in Japan by Chinese monks in the seventeenth century, the volume describes the conflicts and maneuverings within the Buddhist and secular communities that led to the emergence of Obaku as a distinctive institution during the early Tokugawa period.
Book Details
| Book Name | Baroni: Obaku Zen Paper |
| Author | Helen Josephine Baroni |
| Publisher | University Of Hawaii Press (Mar 2000) |
| ISBN | 9780824822439 |
| Pages | 296 |
| Language | English |
| Price | 1617 |
