Volume Four of <i>Classics of Buddhism and Zen </i> features several essential works on the practice of Zen koans, including a complete translation of <i>Gateless Barrier </i>, a classic collection of Zen parables, paradoxes, and teaching stories. Also included is a collection of poetry from the Chinese Buddhist poet Wen-Siang. <br><br> <br><br>The volume includes: <br><br> <i>Transmission of Light: Zen in the Art of Enlightenment </i> <br>This first complete modern translation of the classic <i>Denkoroku</i> illustrates how to attain satori. <br><br> <i>Unlocking the Zen Koan </i> <br>This translation of the koan classic <i>Wumenguan</i> also includes Cleary's selection of comments by great Chinese Zen masters. <br><br> <i>Original Face: An Anthology of Rinzai Zen </i> <br>An anthology of Japanese Rinzai Zen from the thirteenth to the eighteenth centuries. <br><br> <i>Timeless Spring: A Soto Zen Anthology </i> <br>Contains sayings, informal talks, and public cases of important Soto Zen masters. <br><br> <i>Zen Antics: 100 Stories of Enlightenment </i> <br>Unlike many of the baffling dialogues between Zen masters preserved in koan literature, the stories retold here are pointedly simple but with a richness and subtlety that make them worth reading again and again. <br><br> <i>Record of Things Heard: From the Treasury of the Eye of the True Teaching </i> <br>This Zen classic is a collection of talks by the great Japanese Zen Master Dogen, founder of the Soto school. <br><br> <i>Sleepless Nights: Verses for the Wakeful </i> <br>Among the greatest masterpieces of the secular Buddhist poetry, these verses mock the folly of tyrants and celebrate the indomitability of life.