The Baizhang Zen Monastic Regulations, translated by Shohei Ichimura, is the first English translation of this comprehensive manual which sets forth the rules, offices, rituals, and practices of Chan/Zen monastic life. The Taisho edition of the text relies on a fourteenth-century Yuan-era version, compiled and edited by Dongyan Dehui and Xiaowen Dasu, of the original Chan/Zen monastic regulations, the Ancient Regulations, innovated by the ninth-century Zen Master Baizhang Huaihai. Baizhang was the third lineage holder under the Sixth Patriarch of the Chan tradition in China, Huineng (638-714), author of the well-known Platform Sutra (English translation by John R. McRae, The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch, Taisho No. 2008, Numata Center, 1999).    The Baizhang Zen Monastic Regulations presents a complete set of instructions detailing every aspect of daily life in a Chan temple, from the duties and responsibilities of the various officers and practitioners to the recitation of specific prayers and sacred texts in the annual calendar of events. This text o ers a view of the formation of the early Chan/Zen monastic tradition, which has been passed down through the centuries.

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