On one such day, a cold night in Tokyo, Unshou decides to meet Tanzan...
101 Zen Stories: A Buddha
101 Zen Stories: Happy Chinaman
A bald, stout, big-bellied man with a perennial broad-smile on his face whose magnanimity and cheerfulness brought him to be known as "Laughing Buddha"...
101 Zen Stories: The Last Poem of Hoshin
New Year was only six days away and Tokufu was in the fall of his life...
101 Zen Stories: The Moon Cannot Be Stolen
A monk-turned-pilgrim-turned-hermit, a poet and a calligrapher, but above all... a fool.
101 Zen Stories: Great Waves
Even though the Meiji era was a challenging period for the wrestlers in Japan...
101 Zen Stories: Announcement
Hara Tanzan (原タンザン, 5 December 1819 - 27 July 1892) was a polymathic Zen master and the first lecturer on...
101 Zen Stories: No Loving-Kindness
There was an old woman who had supported a monk for over...
101 Zen Stories: If You Love, Love Openly
Eshun (義順, 1362-ca. 1430) was a nun and the younger sister of...
101 Zen Stories: Obedience
Bankei Yōtaku (盤珪永琢) was a Japanese Zen master who lived in the 17th century. He...
101 Zen Stories: Is That So?
In the early 18th century, there lived a Japanese Zen master known as Hakuin...
The Liar 