Five Mountains: The Rinzai Zen Monastic Institution in Medieval Japan by Martin Collcutt
Five Mountains: The Rinzai Zen Monastic Institution in Medieval Japan

Martin Collcutt

Five Mountains: The Rinzai Zen Monastic Institution in Medieval Japan

Martin Collcutt

399 pages first pub 1981 (editions)

informative relaxing medium-paced
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In Japan today, Zen monastic life is practiced substantially as it was practiced in medieval Japan or Sung dynasty China. More than twenty-one thousand Zen temples are active. This book examines the Zen monastery as a major institution in medieval...

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