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The Spirit of Zen Priya Satia Bloom leads us through theAn engaging introduction to Zen Buddhism, featuring a new English translation of one of the earliest Zen texts. Leading Buddhist scholar Sam van Schaik explores the history and essence of Zen, based on a new translation of one of the earliest surviving collections of teachings by Zen masters. These teachings, titled The Masters and Students of the Lanka, were discovered in a sealed cave on the old Silk Road, in modern Gansu, China, in the early