ذن می‌گوید

by Tsai Chih Chung, ع. پاشایی (Translator)

تاریخ آیین بودای ذِن عمری دوهزارساله دارد، و استادان گوناگون آن به زبان‌ها و شیوه‌های گوناگون از آن حرف زده‌اند.
ذن می‌گوید، دربارهٔ آیین بودای ذن است که از ادبیات معتبر ذن دست‌چین شده است، از کتاب‌هایی مثل سورهٔ صفهٔ ششمین پیر، انتقال چراغ، دربارهٔ بی‌دروازه (موموُن کان)، گزارش پرتگاه آبی و گزارش لینجی.

Genres: Philosophy, Zen, Humanities, Buddhism

147 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2005

About the author

Tsai Chih Chung (蔡志忠) is a world-renowned cartoonist and popularizer of Chinese classics whose books have sold more than 40 millions copies worldwide. He first came to prominence through his award-winning animated movies and his immensely popular daily comic strips. When he turned his hand to the classics after a prolonged period of self-education, they were acclaimed by critics and shot to the top of the bestsellers lists.

Starting from the 1980s, Tsai created a series of Chinese comic books on ancient Chinese classics, like huangzi Speaks: The Music of Nature, Zen Speaks: Shouts of Nothingness, Confucius Speaks: Words to Live by, Sunzi Speaks: The Art of War, and The Tao Speaks: Lao Tzu's Whispers of Wisdom. Confucius, Lao Tzu, Zhuangzi, and Sunzi are widely credited as sages whose thoughts have played an important role in China's development. Tsai put his unique understanding and feelings of ancient thoughts into his cartoons, and added a modern interpretation of them, making boring ancient philosophies quite amusing as well as understandable. His works won a large number of adult readers for comic books, a market predominantly children-targeted. This series of comic books has hoarded great applause from readers both in Taiwan and Chinese mainland, with 4 million copies sold in Taiwan.

Differing from most Chinese parents, Tsai has a unique way of bringing up his daughter, stressing independence and self-reliance. His daughter even traveled to Japan by herself at the age of 12.With the influence of her father, his daughter has also become fond of cartoons. Her creativity and originality is comparable to that of her father, and many of her cartoons have been published as well. Tsai once made a comparison between human beings and wolves, stating that a parent wolf never teaches its children the necessary skills of survival, leaving the child with the challenge of acquired these skills on their own.

Reviews

[Zidane Abdollahi · Rating 3 out of 5]

داستانهای مصور کوتاه برای بازنمود کوچکی از ذن که هنوز هم نمیدانم چیست؛ کتاب دلنشینی بود بخصوص برای مقابله با آشفتگی های زندگیِ شلوغِ این عصر.

[Nariman · Rating 5 out of 5]

بسیار خواندنی و جالبه. طنزی که در کاریکاتورها هست و مفاهیمی که با زبانی بسیار ساده روایت میشن و هر کدوم ساعتها جای فکر دارن

حکایت کور چراغ‌به‌دست رو خیلی دوست داشتم

[Kaaveh · Rating 5 out of 5]

بعد دائو د چینگ، فوق‌العاده ترین کتابیه ک خوندم!
کوان های ذن رو کمیک وار روایت میکنه؛ پشماااام!

[Tom · Rating 3 out of 5]

Part of a wonderful series on traditional Chinese philosophy, this book lucidly explains the basic concepts of Zen (aka Chan or Ch'an) Buddhism in the comic format by illustrating the traditional stories/koans (aka gong'an or kung-an). The drawings are simple, but the truths profound. I would give this four stars if it weren't for a number of errors in editing, such as putting the wrong speech in the wrong bubble (errors of translation, as the book was originally written in Chinese by a Taiwanese comics writer).

[David · Rating 5 out of 5]

I posted this to my father. He died. He was 92. I gave it to the lady he talked to about , the guy whose name I forget.