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Still in print today, three pillars has become a zen classic and has been translated into 12 languages. The three pillars of zen teaching, practice, and enlightenment roshi philip kapleau audio book torrent free download, 122258. In 1966 he published the three pillars of zen, the first book to explain the practice of zen to westerners. The three pillars of zen audiobook roshi philip kapleau audible. In the preface, the author says my purpose in this book is to provide a manual that may be used, chapter by chapter, as a program of instruction over the first few weeks of zen.
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