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Mystics & Monks: Six Figures in Zen Buddhist History
With Silas DayThrough this course, you will learn of some of the major figures throughout the history of Zen or Chan Buddhism. This will include figures from both the ancient history of Zen and some more modern teachers who revolutionized the world and brought Zen to the west. As well you will learn a short overview of the entire history of Zen so that you may have a greater sense of scale and felt depth of its character and qualities.
Zen has many strange and wonderful geniuses through its long history, who were they and what did they do?
About this course
Through this course, you will learn of some of the major figures throughout the history of Zen or Chan Buddhism. This will include figures from both the ancient history of Zen and some more modern teachers who revolutionized the world and brought Zen to the west. As well you will learn a short overview of the entire history of Zen so that you may have a greater sense of scale and felt depth of its character and qualities.
Meet your Teacher
Silas Day is an up and coming voice in the emerging discussion between the 2,500 year old tradition of Buddhism and modern day life. Silas has been engaged in the obsessive study and practice of Buddhism and meditation for the past twelve years and has been teaching for the past six. Silas has practiced not only with a single type or kind of Buddhism but has practiced and studied under some of the foremost masters of these schools to help provide a more generalized and unique understanding to the question of the mind, consciousness, and how we can become the best version of ourselves.