China Root av David Hinton

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<b>A beautifully compelling and liberating guide to the original nature of Zen in ancient China by renowned author and translator David Hinton.</b><br><br>Buddhism migrated from India to China in the first century C.E., and Ch''an (Japanese: Zen) is generally seen as China''s most distinctive and enduring form of Buddhism. In <i>China Root</i>, however, David Hinton shows how Ch''an was in fact a Buddhist-influenced extension of Taoism, China''s native system of spiritual philosophy. Unlike Indian Buddhism''s abstract sensibility, Ch''an was grounded in an earthy and empirically-based vision. Exploring this vision, Hinton describes Ch''an as a kind of anti-Buddhism. A radical and wild practice aspiring to a deeply ecological liberation: the integration of individual consciousness with landscape and with a Cosmos seen as harmonious and alive.<br><br>In <i>China Root</i>, Hinton describes this original form of Zen with his trademark clarity and elegance, each chapter exploring in enlight