{"product_id":"china-root-taoism-chan-and-original-zen-by-david-hinton","title":"China Root: Taoism, Ch'an, and Original Zen by David Hinton","description":"\u003cp\u003eA beautifully compelling and liberating guide to the original nature of Zen in ancient China by renowned author and translator David Hinton.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBuddhism 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 China Root, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn China Root, Hinton describes this original form of Zen with his trademark clarity and elegance, each chapter exploring in enlightening ways a core Ch'an concept--such as meditation, mind, Buddha, awakening--as it was originally understood and practiced in ancient China. Finally, by examining a range of standard translations in the Appendix, Hinton reveals how this original understanding and practice of Ch'an\/Zen is almost entirely missing in contemporary American Zen, because it was lost in Ch'an's migration from China through Japan and on to the West.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhether you practice Zen or not, taking this journey on the wings of Hinton's remarkable insight and powerful writing will transform how you understand yourself and the world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Landmark Booksellers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47853733511408,"sku":"9781611807134","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0586\/1385\/8477\/files\/9781611807134.jpg?v=1753462307","url":"https:\/\/shop.landmarkbooksellers.com\/products\/china-root-taoism-chan-and-original-zen-by-david-hinton","provider":"Landmark Booksellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}