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The problem of communicating zen understanding
a microanalysis of teacher-student interviews in a north american zen monastery
pp. 287-309
Abstract
Sometimes the dialogue which you read inkoans or the dialogue that takes place in the interview room doesn't make sense, it's not intended to make sense because it's not a rational, linear sequential thing, thisBodhidharma, whatever you think it is it's not. It's not an idea, it's not a concept, it's alive and it's working. How to see that, how to express that is what the dynamics of interview, ofDharma talk are about.
Publication details
Published in:
(1991) Human Studies 14 (4).
Pages: 287-309
DOI: 10.1007/BF02205610
Full citation:
Buttny Richard, Isbell Thomas L. (1991) „The problem of communicating zen understanding: a microanalysis of teacher-student interviews in a north american zen monastery“. Human Studies 14 (4), 287–309.