9780804802666 | Tuttle Pub, June 1, 1985, cover price $19.95 |
About this edition: Koans are the intellectually unsolvable problem-riddles at the core of the Rinzai tradition of Zen Buddhism, perhaps the most well-known one being "what is the sound of one hand clapping.
9781559276344 | Abridged edition (St Martins Pr, January 1, 2001), cover price $17.95 |
About this edition: A timeless collection of Zen Buddhist koans by the author of Zen Flesh, Zen Bones, with interpretations by three Zen mastersKoans are the metaphorical narratives and intellectually unsolvable problem-riddles that verbalize fundamental Zen views on life and no-life, the nature of the self, and the relationship of the self to the world.