        item: #1 of 6
          id: 18223
      author: None
       title: The Essence of Buddhism
        date: None
       words: 11242
      flesch: 83
     summary: Good men melt with compassion even for one who has wrought them harm.--Kshemendra's Avadana Kalpalata. The sorrow of others enters into the hearts of good men as water into the soil.--Story of Haritika.
    keywords: buddha; buddhist; charity; compassion; creatures; evil; good; heart; hing; king; king milinda; life; living; love; man; men; pen; pity; sho; sutta; tsih; vol; world
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          id: 2017
      author: None
       title: Dhammapada, a Collection of Verses; Being One of the Canonical Books of the Buddhists
        date: None
       words: 12198
      flesch: 88
     summary: Fools follow after vanity, men of evil wisdom. Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.
    keywords: brahmana; chapter; evil; good; law; life; man; men; mind; pain; people; world
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          id: 34325
      author: Hoover, Thomas
       title: The Zen Experience
        date: None
       words: 97176
      flesch: 71
     summary: The early Chinese teachers of meditation (called _dhyana _in Sanskrit and Ch'an in Chinese) absorbed the Taoist tradition of intuitive wisdom, and later Zen masters often used Taoist expressions. ISBN 0-452-25228-8 Copyright ©1980 by Thomas Hoover All rights reserved www.thomashoover.info Key words: Author: Thomas Hoover Title: The Zen Experience Zen History, Buddhism, Zen Buddhism, Zen History, Seng-Chao, Tao-sheng, Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Kuo Hsiang, Nagarjuna, Seng-chao, Tao-Sheng, Bodhidharma, Hui'ko, Seng-Ts'an, Tao-hsin, Fa-jung, Hung-jen, Shen- hsiu, Hui-neng, Ma-tsu, Huai-hai, Nan'chuan, Chao-Chou, P'ang, Han- shan, Huang-po, Lin-Chi, Rinzai, Soto, Tung-shan, Ts'ao-shan, Kuei- shan, Yun-men, Fa-yen, Ta-hui, Eisai, Dogen, Hakuin PERMISSIONS Selections from Zen and Zen Classics, Vols.
    keywords: = =; age; bodhidharma; buddha; buddhist; century; ch'an; ch'an buddhism; ch'an master; ch'uan; chang; chao; china; chinese; chinese ch'an; chou; day; dhyana; dogen; emperor; enlightenment; great; hai; history; huai; huang; hui; ibid; ikkyu; japanese; koan; life; lin; man; master; meditation; mind; monastery; monk; nature; neng; new; new york; patriarch; practice; press; question; reality; school; sect; shan; shen; state; story; sutra; tao; teachings; temple; things; thought; time; traditional; tsu; university; way; words; work; world; years; york; yuan; zen; zen buddhism; zen master; zen teaching
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        item: #4 of 6
          id: 36039
      author: Rouse, W. H. D. (William Henry Denham)
       title: The Giant Crab, and Other Tales from Old India
        date: None
       words: 23089
      flesch: 92
     summary: What a blessing! thought King Godfrey to himself. There are really a great many people like that, only we see them in the shape of men and do not know the difference.
    keywords: crab; crane; day; farmer; good; head; king; lion; man; monkey; thought; time; tree; water
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        item: #5 of 6
          id: 5173
      author: Nukariya, Kaiten
       title: The Religion of the Samurai A Study of Zen Philosophy and Discipline in China and Japan
        date: None
       words: 86987
      flesch: 73
     summary: If we are not mistaken, Kumarajiva, who came to China A.D. 384, made a valuable contribution towards the foundation of Zen in that country, not merely through his translation of Zen sutras above mentioned, but by the education of his disciples, such as Sang Chao (So-jo, died A.D. 414), Sang Shang (So-sho, whose writings undoubtedly influenced later Zen teachers. The translation of Hinayana Zen sutras first paved the way for our faith.
    keywords: a.d; age; author; beings; body; books; buddha; buddhist; china; chinese; dai; death; doctrine; earth; emperor; enlightenment; existence; faith; form; gen; good; heaven; hinayana; human; japanese; law; life; mahayana; man; master; means; meditation; men; mind; monk; muni; nature; objects; order; origin; patriarch; present; reality; right; school; sect; self; sense; shakya; shan; shu; soul; spirit; state; sutra; teacher; things; time; truth; universe; view; way; world; years; zai; zen
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        item: #6 of 6
          id: 8390
      author: Hodous, Lewis
       title: Buddhism and Buddhists in China
        date: None
       words: 27511
      flesch: 73
     summary: For Buddhism proper, see Vol. VI, pp. 89-233. 10. EDKINS, J. _Chinese Buddhism. A Buddhist writer sums up the aims of new Buddhism as follows: Formerly Buddhism desired to escape the sinful world.
    keywords: beings; buddha; buddhism; buddhists; china; chinese; christianity; day; faith; family; god; good; heart; heaven; individual; kuan; land; life; man; men; monasteries; monastery; monks; new; people; place; purgatory; religion; salvation; time; way; work; world; yin
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