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"Big Hong Fist" from Shaolin: Temple of Zen

Shaolin: Temple of Zen
Justin Guariglia
New York: Aperture Foundation, 2007
144 pp.; $40.00 (cloth)

American Shaolin
Matthew Polly
New York: Gotham Books, 2007
384 pp.; $15.00 (paper)

BODHIDHARMA IS ZEN'S founding father. As its first patriarch, he carried the lamp of enlightenment eastward from India to sixth-century China, where it would eventually spread to Vietnam, Korea, Japan, and beyond. He is immortalized in the daily lineage recitations of countless Zen monks worldwide, and in their silent struggle with the master's great life koan: Why did Bodhidharma come from the West?

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