Sublime

Thus, the sutra weaves together the threads of Yogacara and Zen, along with such unique Mahayana concepts as the no-self self of the tathagata-garbha, and it does this for three hundred pages, mostly in prose, and with occasional recapitulations in verse.

Rinzai Roku (a celebrated Zen text of the T’ang dynasty) and the teachings of Bankei, the seventeenth-century Japanese master who, for me, represents Zen at its best.

shunyata (emptiness), the view that because nothing exists independently of other things, it has no nature of its own, and everything is therefore empty, and this emptiness is the true nature of reality.

Ginger (dry)

A portion of these relics were eventually brought to China during the seventh century and subsequently lost when the T’ang dynasty collapsed in the tenth century. They were rediscovered several decades ago during the excavation of the ruins of what was once Chingshan Temple northeast of Sian, and I had the good fortune to see them during a visit to

Guan Yin, the Chinese Goddess of Compassion,

Rice (glutinous)