THICHNHAT HANH is a Vietnamese Zen monk, a former professor at the University of Saigon, and a noted poet. He is the author of a number of works on Buddhism and has published three books in English: Vietnam: Lotus in a Sea of Fire, Vietnam Poems, and Zen Poems. He is internationally known as one of the leading spokesmen of the Vietnamese Buddhist peace movement.

This book of 190 pages is on the Zen approach to Buddhism. It is the most technical of the books we have here on the website and goes into stories of Zen masters, discusses the language that they had to develop to explain what can only be gotten from extensive practice.