Bukka Engo Zenji Hekiganroku Or Hekiganroku Or Hekiganshu Emerald Or Blue Cliff Record

by Yuanwu Keqin In Japanese Engo Kokugon Or

$85,000 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller · No longer available

Printed in Chinese with Japanese reading marks. 11 columns per page, 21 characters per column. 79; 59; 51; 49; 67 folding leaves. Ten parts in five vols. 8vo 240 x 149 mm. , orig. brown wrappers, new stitching. Japan : mid-Muromachi ca. 1440-50 . An extremely rare and important “mid-Muromachi” Gozan-ban edition of The Blue Cliff Record in Chinese: Pi yen lu , a collection of Chan Buddhist koan. These were verbal tests, used to practice or

• Binding: Wrappers

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