Download or read book The Pocket Zen Reader written by and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2008 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This miniature book presents a thousand years of Zen teaching for the modern reader in a way that preserves the dynamic flavor of these talks, sayings, and records of heart-to-heart encounters. From the earliest adepts to the last of the great masters, The Pocket Zen Reader is a pocket-sized compendium of Zen at its best. This collection is edited by Thomas Cleary, the translator of over fifty volumes of Buddhist, Taoist, Confucian, and Islamic texts.