oxherding pictures

Sailor setting off into the sea

TeachingsMagazine | Feature

To the Pure Land and Back

Like the oxherding pictures used in Zen, Shin Buddhism's seven phases of the drowning sailor illustrate the path to enlightenment.

By Rev. Dr. Kenneth Tanaka, Illustrations by Andrew Archer

Oxherding in the Korea Times

Things have been tense on the Korean Peninsula lately, with crowds in Seoul today calling for revenge against the north for the sinking of the Cheonan, a South Korean naval vessel. But readers of the Korean…

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