No-Gate Gateway

A new translation of one of the great koan collections--by the premier translator of the Chinese classics--that reveals it to be a literary and philosophical masterwork beyond its association with Chan/Zen. A monk asked: “A dog too has Buddha-nature, no?” And with the master’s enigmatic one-word response begins the great No-Gate Gateway ( Wu-Men Kuan ), ancient China’s classic foray into the inexpressible nature of mind and reality. For nearly eight hundred years, this text (also