These stories stem not only from Buddhism, but from other religions and from the matrial arts, music, chess and the vagaries of everyday life.[...]
Samurai Zen brings together 100 of the rare riddles which represent the core spiritual discipline of Japan's ancient Samurai tradition. Dating from thirteenth-century records of Japan's Kamakura temples, and traditionally guarded with a reverent secrecy, they reflect the earliest manifestation of pu[...]