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Entry: The Koan in Zen Buddhism - A3345798
Author: Incatatus101 - U767200

It would be very encouraging to hear from anyone who has read this entry and would like to let me know what they think.

This is an excellent introduction to the koan. Wasn't there a famous zen master who wrote an essential collection of koans, the Gateless Gate, I think. This might be worth mentioning.

I think you should insert the word "that" before "the koan is logical".

When you say "en passé", I think you mean "impasse".

Excellent stuff!

Hi Gnomon

I have made the changes to the text you have suggested. Many thanks for pointing these out to me, I can become blind to my own words sometimes especially after reading through an entry a few times

One of the koan links is to a page called the Gateless Gate, although I don't think it is the text you refer to. It is a good little text however because it sums up the koan and spirit of Zen quite well, so I will see if I can work it into the entry.

Many thanks for your help, these suggestions are very useful

As always I got it wrong. The link in the entry is to the original text of 'The Gateless Gate' by Ekai (Mumon). I was thinking of another text called 'Bulls' by Kakuan.

I remember now. The Zen master was known as Mumon. His book "The Gateless Gate" contains a number of koans, each with a commentary by Mumon.

The text of it is available at http://www.terebess.hu/english/gateless.html

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Thanks GN

Its curious to an innocent like me that the entry was picked up by a machine. One day I may be wise enough to understand these things.