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Here are the life journeys of three great seekers who, though separated by time and culture, had much in common. Dogen was the 13th-century Japanese founder of a School of Zen Buddhism, the Soto School, and a teacher of zazen, wordless meditation. Jung was a 20th-century Swiss psychiatrist who... read more
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The first known appearance in the world of the concept of emptiness as an essential aspect of spiritual awareness was in Buddhism in the sixth century B.C.E. From Buddhism's very beginning, emptiness was an essential, central doctrine, deriving from the basic idea of no-self, or selflessness (anatman in Sanskrit).
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- Robert Jingen Gunn (Author)
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 291.40922
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- Books › Religion & Spirituality › Christianity › Worship & Devotion › Asceticism
- Books › Nonfiction › Philosophy › Philosophy of Religion
- Books › Religion & Spirituality › Religious Studies › Comparative Religion
- Books › Health, Mind & Body › Psychology & Counseling › Psychotherapy, TA & NLP
- Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Leaders & Notable People › Religious
- Books › Religion & Spirituality › Spirituality
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