The Sūtra of Perfect Enlightenment: Korean Buddhism's Guide to Meditation (with Commentary by the Sǒn Monk Kihwa)

SUNY Series in Korean Studies

by A. Charles Muller (translator)

The Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment, used in monastic education for more than a millennium, is a concise guide to the key paradigms of the practice systems of the East Asian meditational schools (Ch'an, Son, and Zen). Contained in its twelve chapters are d

Genres: Buddhism, Zen, Religion

250 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 1999

About the author

A. Charles Muller, Ph.D. (Comparative Literature, State University of New York (SUNY) Stony Brook, 1993; B.A., Religious Studies, Stony Brook), is a professor in the Department of Education, Musashino University, where he is director of the Institute of Buddhist culture and teaches courses in Buddhist Studies, and Professor Emeritus of the Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology at the University of Tokyo, where he taught courses in Digital Humanities, Chinese Philosophy, and Korean Philosophy and Religion. Previously, he taught philosophy and religion at Toyo Gakuen University.

Reviews

[Juliane Roell · Rating 5 out of 5]

Most amazing Sutra study ever. Longer review will probably follow when there is time.

[K · Rating 3 out of 5]

Another in long line of Buddhist Sutras, similar themes to many others: compassion and the perils of conditioned illusion as reality, etc. The Diamond Sutra is still my fave.