Shanjian Dashi

Dedaojing Shanjian Dashi

Publisher Marketing: Una nueva traduccion y comentario del clasico de Laozi desde la comprension y la experiencia del budismo Chan (Zen). El libro incluye: texto completo en caracteres chinos y transcripcion pinyin, seleccionado principalmente a partir de las versiones de Wangbi, Guodian y Mawangdui; traducciones literales al espanol; comentarios detallados linea por linea; diagramas; y una amplia explicacion del sentido de cada capitulo en lenguaje llano y facil de entender. Se trata por tanto de una obra muy util como referencia y para acercarse al camino del Dao (Tao), surgido en China hace mas de dos mil quinientos anos pero de singular relevancia para todos aquellos hombres y mujeres contemporaneos interesados en descubrir su propia naturaleza pura. Contributor Bio:  Dashi, Shanjian Shanjian Dashi was born in England, trained as a psychologist and biologist in California, and did research with Leon Festinger at the New York School for Social Research. After rejecting the ways of our Western consumer society, and prompted by his discovery of Dharma teachings that confirmed his scientific findings on visual perception, he encountered his guides Nyanaponika Thera and Narada Maha Thera in Sri Lanka. It was there that Nyanaponika Thera persuaded him of the importance of deeply understanding Right Attention and Right Energy and Narada Maha Thera showed him the essence of Abhidharma, with the idea that, whereas modern psychology could explain perfectly well with cognitive intelligence why the mind works as it does, Buddha Dharma could show how to find the truth through direct experience -a confluence that was absolutely essential for the new world. After fifteen years as a Theravadin, as an arahat unawakened to the Primordial State, Shanjian sought without expectations and received Chan transmission in Kunming (China), after which he reintegrated the Five Houses of Chan along with Zongmi's Huayan model. For thirty years he has taught all the basic Dharma paths at the Mahabodhi Sunyata Seminary in Spain, stressing the transcendental unity underlying the manifold Dharma practices available for all beings: a unified Buddhism without dogmas, ceremonies, or rituals, with emphasis on the depth of all teachings from the simplicity of Chan to the magnificence of Vajrayana, without compromises, without separating apparently different paths, and without straying from the true Dharma spirit.