Only a Great Rain

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“Anyone seeking to enhance their understanding of Chinese Buddhist practice, or looking for a new approach to help refresh their own practice, this book will be invaluable.”—The Middle Way

ONLY A GREAT RAIN

A Guide to Chinese Buddhist Meditation

Master Hsing Yun Tom Graham John McRae

Very little has been published to date on China’s rich traditions of Buddhist meditation. Inspired by the need to increase meaningful interaction between China and the West on spiritual issues, modern meditation master Hsing Yun here brings this vast legacy to life in straightforward and engaging language. Professor McRae’s introduction to the world of Chinese Buddhism helps place these instructions in their wider context.

book information
  • Paperback
  • 160 pages, 6.00 x 9.00 inches
  • $14.95
  • ISBN 9780861711482
about the author
Only a Great Rain

Master Hsing Yun is the founder of Fo Guang Shan—an international Buddhist order with temples worldwide—the affiliated Buddha’s Light International, and University of the West in Rosemead, California. Born in 1927, he is a forty-eighth patriarch of the Lin Chi (Rinzai) School of Zen Buddhism and lives in Taiwan.

Other books by Master Hsing Yun:
Business and the Buddha
Describing the Indescribable

Only a Great Rain

Tom Graham, a scholar and translator of Chinese, worked in East Asia for ten years. He now resides in San Diego, California.

Other books by Tom Graham:
Describing the Indescribable

Only a Great Rain

John McRae was a leading authority on Chinese Buddhism. He authored the books Seeing through Zen: Encounter, Transformation, and Genealogy in Chinese Chan Buddhism and The Northern School and the Formation of Early Ch’an Buddhism, as well as many important articles. McRae also wrote one of the few English translations of the Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra for the Numata Center for Buddhist Translation and Research. He taught at Cornell University and Indiana University, and was serving as a lecturer at Komazawa University in Tokyo at the time of his death.

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