{"product_id":"the-sound-of-the-one-hand","title":"The Sound of the One Hand","description":"Condition: BRAND NEW\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781681370224\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Trade paperback (UK)\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2016\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: RANDOM HOUSE US\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescription:\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Sound of One Hand Clapping\u003c\/i\u003e, which revealed the answers to hundreds of Zen koans, sparked controversy when it was first published in 1975. It is one of the most important documents pertaining to Eastern Religion and is now reappearing after going out of print almost four decades ago.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen \u003ci\u003eThe Sound of the One Hand\u003c\/i\u003e came out in Japan in 1916 it caused a scandal. Zen was a secretive practice, its wisdom relayed from master to novice in strictest privacy. That a handbook existed recording not only the riddling koans that are central to Zen teaching but also detailing the answers to them seemed to mark Zen as rote, not revelatory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor all that, \u003ci\u003eThe Sound of the One Hand\u003c\/i\u003e opens the door to Zen like no other book. Including koans that go back to the master who first brought the koan teaching method from China to Japan in the eighteenth century, this book offers, in the words of the translator, editor, and Zen initiate Yoel Hoffmann, \"the clearest, most detailed, and most correct picture of Zen\" that can be found. What we have here is an extraordinary introduction to Zen thought as lived thought, a treasury of problems, paradoxes, and performance that will appeal to artists, writers, and philosophers as well as Buddhists and students of religion.","brand":"RANDOM HOUSE","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":41837343408261,"sku":"PR430579","price":47.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0213\/3637\/files\/image_TT6MJMII3WS3.jpg?v=1788134174","url":"https:\/\/smartfoxbooks.com.au\/products\/the-sound-of-the-one-hand","provider":"Smartfox Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}