Record of Linji

by Linji Yixuan

Books that mention Record of Linji (2)

• The Religion of the Samurai: A Study of Zen Philosophy and Discipline in China and Japan by Kaiten Nukariya: “It is on this account that Rin-zai declared: 'The twelve divisions of the Buddhist Canon are nothing better than waste paper.'”
• I Am a Cat by Natsume Sōseki: “The master's only reason for revering this prose is that nobody understands it at all, just as Taoists revere the Tao Te Ching, Confucians the I Ching, and Zen followers the Record of Linji. [auto-translated]”