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F E A T U R E D
September 8 Sunday Zen: With John Tarrant & Friends
September 21 Daylong: With John Tarrant & Tess Beasley
October 22–27 Fall Sesshin: with John Tarrant & PZI Teachers
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SPECIAL WEDNESDAY: Zen Luminaries with Jon Joseph and Guest David Hinton: The Way of Chan
August 9, 2023 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
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A Wednesday Zen Luminaries conversation
hosted by Point Reyes Books and Pacific Zen Institute
Jon Joseph Roshi, PZI teacher and director of San Mateo Zen, is joined by author, poet, and translator David Hinton for a conversation about his recent book of translations, The Way of Ch’an: Essential Texts of the Original Tradition.
About David Hinton’s The Way of Chan
This sweeping collection of new translations paints a brilliant picture of the development of Chan (Zen) Buddhism, China’s most radical philosophical and meditative tradition.
In this landmark anthology of some two dozen translations, celebrated translator David Hinton shows how Chan—too long considered a perplexing school of Chinese Buddhism—was in truth a Buddhist-inflected form of Daoism, China’s native system of spiritual philosophy. The texts in The Way of Ch’an build from seminal Daoism through the “Dark-Enigma Learning” literature and on to the most important pieces from all stages of the classical Chan tradition.
Through this steadily deepening and transformative reading experience, readers will see the profound and intricate connections between native Chinese philosophy, Daoism, and Chan. Contemporary Zen students and practitioners will never see their tradition in the same way again.
“A national treasure . . . Hinton cracks open the cosmos and takes you into the depths of the mind.”
—Lion’s Roar
(summary from Point Reyes Books event page)
About David Hinton
David Hinton has published numerous books of poetry and essays, and many translations of ancient Chinese poetry and philosophy—all informed by an abiding interest in deep ecological thinking.
This widely acclaimed work has earned Hinton a Guggenheim Fellowship, numerous fellowships from NEA and NEH, and both of the major awards given for poetry translation in the United States: the Landon Translation Award (Academy of American Poets) and the PEN American Translation Award. Most recently, Hinton received a lifetime achievement award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
About Jon Joseph
Jon Joseph Roshi is practice leader of San Mateo Zen, and holding teacher for Desert Lotus Zen in Phoenix. He began sitting Zen forty years ago with a group of high school friends, led by their Spanish teacher. Jon then took his practice to the logging and fishing camps of Alaska and to the redwoods of California. After college, Jon traveled to Kamakura, Japan, where he studied for eight years with Yamada Koun Roshi at the SanUn Zendo. He is fluent in Japanese.
Jon returned to the US and took up koan practice with John Tarrant Roshi, founder of the Pacific Zen Institute, known for its innovative use of ancient koans to transform lives in the present world. In 2012, Tarrant Roshi gave Jon permission to teach, with full transmission given in 2016.
Jon Joseph Roshi of San Mateo Zen and PZI created this series to support the hardworking innovators and shining voices of modern Zen: scholars, writers, poets, translators, activists, artists, teachers, and more.
Join us for a conversation about the great texts and insights from the original Chan tradition. Register to participate. All are welcome.
