Description

This book, 'Buddhist Faith and Sudden Enlightenment' includes explanations on how sudden enlightenment occurs through the awakening of patriarchal faith. The essence of this presentation is that patriachal faith forms the basis for sudden enlightenment in Zen meditation. For the practitioner, this book has been established the Zen method of mind-cultivation on a higher level by introducing a new understanding of awakening right faith. This book includes three parts; of which the part one is about Faith, second part is on Practice, and the third part on Enlightenment. Included is extensive material on the history of faith in Buddhism with the main attention devoted to Ch'an (Zen) and Hua-Yen. There are also substantial discussions of Buddhist antecedents to these schools and of the Pure Land School. This is the first book in English to examine the central role of faith in Mahayana Buddhism. The author's approach develops from his personal experiences as a Zen monk of the Chogye order, which was heavily influenced by the integration of meditation and scriptural study established by Chinul.