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Miniatures of a Zen Master
ROBERT AITKEN
INTRODUCTION BY NELSON FOSTER
Robert Aitken has taught Zen Buddhist practice for over forty years, has written more than a dozen books, and has worked for peace as a political activist throughout his life. In this book, Aitken offers a collection of 266 short texts, including parables, quotations, commentaries and stories. These “miniatures” distill a life devoted to teaching and awareness, to being present, showing up, and making a difference.
COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-536-7 | Trade Paper | $14.95 |
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Living Without God
New Directions for Atheists, Agnostics, Secularists, and the Undecided
RONALD ARONSON
"Ronald Aronson demonstrates that atheism represents much more than what one does not believe: that it is the precondition for a generous humanism. The two closing chapters are models of stoicism at its best." —Christopher Hitchens, author of God Is Not Great
COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-530-5 | Trade Paper| $15.95 |
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The Old Tea Seller
Life and Zen Poetry in 18th Century Kyoto
BAISAO | BY NORMAN WADDELL
Baisao was a poet, a Zen Buddhist priest, a thinker, and a seller of tea. Through his tea, his poetry, and his teaching, he became one of the most well-loved figures in Kyoto, the Japanese capital at the time. These poems, memoirs, and letters trace his spiritual and physical journey over a long and remarkable life.
COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-413-1 | Cloth | $24.00 |
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A Pelican in the Wilderness
Hermits, Solitaries, and Recluses
Isabel Colgate
From Lao-tse and the Buddha, St. Anthony and the early Celtic hermits, through Rousseau, Thoreau, Ruskin and up to the present day, certain gifted persons have shown a vocation for living alone and apart, finding in simplicity and attention to nature a spiritual space to be explored and rejoiced in. Others, retreating from the world in scorn or cut off from it by scandal, have found that solitude is Hell, a pit of melancholy and morbid fancy. In this, her first work of nonfiction, novelist Isabel Colegate gives us the lives of the solitaries—male and female, medieval and modern, divinely inspired and patently fraudulent. But this is no mere gallery of saints and sinners, poets and misanthropes. It is also a re-evaluation of solitude for our times, and a reminder that it is in solitude that the soul meets itself, refreshes itself, and from there goes out to join the communal dance.
“A bright and highly literate study of asceticism in both the East and the West.” —Los Angeles Times
COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-596-6 | Trade Paper | $16.95 |
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Snake Lake
JEFF GREENWALD
Set during 1990’s dramatic “people power” uprising in Nepal, Snake Lake follows Greenwalk as he wins the friendship of a high lama who reveals the pillars of Tibetan Buddhism; embarks on a passionate romance with a spunky but curiously unlucky news photographer; and discovers what democracy means to rural Nepali citizens—all while covering the revolution for a major American newspaper.
counterpoint | 978-1-58243-612-8 | Cloth | $28.00
counterpoint | 978-1-58243-649-4 | TRADE PAPER ORIGINAL | $15.95 |
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Legends of the Fire Spirits
Jinn and Genies from Arabia to Zanzibar
Robert Lebling
Robert Lebling delves into long-lost accounts, medieval histories, colonial records, anthropologist’s reports, and traveler’s tales to explore the origin and evolution of legends that continue to thrive in the Middle East and beyond. He cuts through centuries of Orientalists’ cultural presumption to craft a study that stands apart from the overwhelming body of literature concerned with religion in the Middle East.
"Legends of the Fire Spirits is a long overdue compendium of the knowledge and history of the jinn. It will enrich the reader's knowledge of human history more than one might imagine. The book also can serve as a lifelong reference to the mysteries of the Middle East and their influence on both Western and Eastern cultures." —Arab News
COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-632-6 | Trade Paper | $16.95 |
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A Book of Silence
SARA MAITLAND
In her late forties, after a noisy upbringing as one of six children and adulthood as a vocal feminist and mother, Sara Maitland found herself living alone in the country and, to her surprise, falling in love with silence. In this fascinating, intelligent, and beautifully written book, Maitland describes how she set out to explore this new love, spending periods of silence in the Sinai desert, the Scottish hills, and a remote cottage on the Isle of Skye.
“A brilliant exploration of something that right at the start is impossible to define precisely . . . And I can hardly wait to see what comes next from this marvelous writer, thinker and seeker. I only hope it isn’t . . . silence." —The New York Times Book Review
COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-613-5 | Trade Paper | $15.95
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Are We There Yet?
A Zen Journey Through Space and Time
PETER MURYO MATTHIESSEN AND PETER CUNNINGHAM
INTRODUCTION BY BERNARD GLASSMAN
In 1982, writer Peter Muryo Matthiessen traveled with Bernard Glassman to pay respects to the teachers in their lineage, some of the great living Zen masters of twentieth-century Japan. This historic event was captured in the moment by the selective lens of Peter Cunningham.
counterpoint | 978-1-58243-630-2 | TRADE PAPER ORIGINAL | $29.95 |
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The Forgotten Gospels
Life and Teachings of Jesus Supplementary to the New Testament
Tim Newton
The Forgotten Gospels shows how the creation of the canon that we now take for granted excluded many important, informative, and illuminating writings about the life, death, and teachings of Jesus.
Here are texts newly translated from their original Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Slavonic, and Coptic and accompanied by clear, concise explanations of their origins and relevance. Together, they form a supplement to the New Testament that will set the record straight.
COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-633-3 | Trade Paper | $15.95 |
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Road to Heaven
Encounters with Chinese Hermits
BILL PORTER
Part travelogue, part history, part sociology, and part religious study, this record of extraordinary journeys to an unknown China sheds light on a phenomenon unparalleled in the West. Porter’s discovery is more than a revelation, and uncovers the glimmer of hope for the future of religion in China.
COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-523-7 | Trade Paper | $15.95 |
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Zen Baggage
A Pilgrimage to China
BILL PORTER
In 2006, Bill Porter traveled through the heart of China on a pilgrimage to sites associated with the first six patriarchs of Zen. In this account of that journey, Porter weaves together historical background, interviews with Zen masters, translations of the earliest records of Zen, and personal vignettes, capturing both the changes afoot at Chinese religious centers and the abiding legacy that they preserve.
COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-540-4 | Trade Paper | $16.95 |
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The Platform Sutra
The Zen Teaching of Hui-neng
TRANSLATION AND COMMENTARY BY RED PINE
Along with The Heart Sutra and The Diamond Sutra, The Platform Sutra occupies a central place in Zen Buddhist teaching. Unlike the other sutras, however, which relay the teachings of the Buddha himself, The Platform Sutra presents the life and work of Hui-neng, sixth patriarch of Zen. Red Pine here offers a sensitive and straightforward translation of this vital Buddhist text, along with his own remarkably insightful commentary.
COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-59376-177-6 | Trade Paper | $16.95 |
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