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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 70. Chapters: Zen Buddhism writers, Zen koan collections, K an, D gen, Seongcheol, D. T. Suzuki, Seung Sahn, Sokei-an, The Gateless Gate, Shunryu Suzuki, Taizan Maezumi, Wild fox koan, Hanshan, Zentatsu Richard Baker, Scott Shaw, Soen Nakagawa, Zoketsu Norman Fischer, Dainin Katagiri, Robert Baker Aitken, Sheng-yen, John Daido Loori, Shurangama Sutra, Reb Anderson, Sh b genz, Philip Kapleau, Xinxin Ming, Big Mind, List of koans by Yunmen Wenyan, White Collar Zen, Dongchu, The Compass of Zen, Shodo Harada, Karlfried Graf Durckheim, Kazuaki Tanahashi, Gudo Wafu Nishijima, Platform Sutra, Myokyo-ni, Jakusho Kwong, Edward Espe Brown, Dennis Genpo Merzel, Seosan Daesa, Joko Beck, Ten Bulls, Jan Chozen Bays, Sandokai, Soko Morinaga, Flower Sermon, James H. Austin, Literature of the Five Mountains, John Crook, Kurt Kankan Spellmeyer, Shinji Sh b genz, Bend wa, Bon Yeon, Geri Larkin, Jundo Cohen, Jakushitsu Genk, Blue Cliff Record, Shin'ichi Hisamatsu, Long Scroll of the Treatise on the Two Entrances and Four Practices, Heinrich Dumoulin, Wu Kwang, Natalie Goldberg, Ganto's Ax, Denkoroku, 101 Zen Stories, Mel Ash, Helen Josephine Baroni, Mondo. Excerpt: Seongcheol (April 6, 1912 - November 4, 1993) is the dharma name of a Korean Seon (Zen) Master. He was a key figure in modern Korean Buddhism, being responsible for significant changes to it from the 1950s to 1990s. Seongcheol was widely recognized in Korea as having been a living Buddha, due to his extremely ascetic lifestyle, the duration and manner of his meditation training, his central role in reforming Korean Buddhism in the post-World War II era, and the quality of his oral and written teachings. Born on April 10, 1912 in Korea under the name of Yi Yeongju, Seongcheol was the first of seven children of a Confucian scholar in Gyeongsang province. He was rumored to have been an ex...