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The Koan

Texts and Contexts in Zen Buddhism

Edited by

Steven Heine

Dale S. Wright

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UNIVERSITY PRESS

2000

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The Koan : texts and contexts in Zen Buddhism /

edited by Steven Heine, Dale S. Wright.

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ISBN 0-19-511748-4; ISBN 0-19-511749-2 (pbk.)

i. Koan. I . Heine, Steven, 1950- . II . Wright, Dale S.

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