The Gateless Gate: The Classic Book of Zen Koans

The Gateless Gate: The Classic Book of Zen Koans by Koun Yamada


2004 | ISBN: 0861713826 | English | 336 pages | EPUB | 15 MB

In The Gateless Gate, one of modern Zen Buddhism"s uniquely influential masters offers classic commentaries on the Mumonkan, one of Zen"s greatest collections of teaching stories. This translation was compiled with the Western reader in mind, and includes Koan Yamada"s clear and penetrating comments on each case. Yamada played a seminal role in bringing Zen Buddhism to the West from Japan, going on to be the head of the Sanbo Kyodan Zen Community.




The Gateless Gate would be invaluable if only for the translation and commentary alone, yet it"s loaded with extra material and is a fantastic resource to keep close by:


An in-depth Introduction to the History of Zen Practice


Lineage charts


Japanese-to-Chinese and Chinese-to-Japanese conversion charts for personal names, place names, and names of writings


Plus front- and back-matter from ancient and modern figures: Mumon, Shuan, Kubota Ji"un, Taizan Maezumi, Hugo Enomiya-Lasalle, and Yamada Roshi"s son, Masamichi Yamada.




A wonderful inspiration for the koan practitioner, and for those with a general interest in Zen Buddhism.

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Final Cut: Art, Money, and Ego in the Making of Heaven"s Gate, the Film that Sank United Artists

Steven Bach, "Final Cut: Art, Money, and Ego in the Making of Heaven"s Gate, the Film that Sank United Artists"


1999 | ISBN: 1557043744 | 432 pages | EPUB | 0,6 MB

Heaven"s Gate is probably the most discussed, least seen film in modern movie history. Its notoriety is so great that its title has become a generic term for disaster, for ego run rampant, for epic mismanagement, for wanton extravagance. It was also the film that brought down one of Hollywood’s major studios—United Artists, the company founded in 1919 by Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, D. W. Griffith, and Charlie Chaplin. Steven Bach was senior vice president and head of worldwide production for United Artists at the time of the filming of Heaven"s Gate, and apart from the director and producer, the only person to witness the film’s evolution from beginning to end. Combining wit, extraordinary anecdotes, and historical perspective, he has produced a landmark book on Hollywood and its people, and in so doing, tells a story of human absurdity that would have made Chaplin proud.

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