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The Blue Cliff Record<\/i>, or the\u00a0<\/span>Hekiganroku<\/em>, has been used as a teaching tool for students of Zen Buddhism for a thousand years.\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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Its one hundred koans were originally compiled by Setcho (980 -1052), a poet and scholar, in early eleventh century China.\u00a0 This present book is an iconoclastic version of The Blue Cliff Record<\/em>, a book that was in its time also deeply iconoclastic.<\/p>\n

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It contains all the original koans but with fresh variations on the introductory statements and commentary.\u00a0 It is also, I believe, the first time since its creation that the book has ever been fully illuminated.<\/p>\n

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In the ancient tradition of those early Irish monks. I have chosen to illuminate what cannot be illumined with a piece of artwork to accompany each case in the collection.<\/p>\n

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I choose the word “illuminate” deliberately.\u00a0 In part to\u00a0 mirror the work of those monks laboring to illuminate, to bring visible brightness of a visual and oral culture to the page of manuscripts in scriptoria lit only by the light of day, and in part to distinguish the work from mere illustration, which only goes one way and is either a visual description of the text or a way of telling one how one should<\/em>\u00a0respond to the text.\u00a0 Illumination goes both ways; outwardly showing the way we must travel, and inwardly, clarifying who we are taking these steps towards clarity.\u00a0 But we are taking these steps alone.<\/p>\n

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This is an\u00a0artist’s book<\/em>, that is, not a book containing pictures art, but a work of art itself, using the book form as a medium.\u00a0 This artist’s book is in six copies.<\/p>\n

An e-book of The Blue Cliff Record is now available on Amazon.<\/p>\n

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