# Beating the Cloth Drum

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- Book: [Beating the Cloth Drum](https://www.bookquiver.com/hakuin-zenji/beating-the-cloth-drum) ([Beating the Cloth Drum.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/hakuin-zenji/beating-the-cloth-drum.md))
- Authors: [Hakuin Zenji](https://www.bookquiver.com/hakuin-zenji), [Norman Waddell](https://www.bookquiver.com/norman-waddell)
- Publisher: shambhala
- ISBN: 978-15-9030-948-3
- Pages: 256
- Published: 2012-03-20
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Hakuin Ekaku (1685-1769) is one of the most influential figures in Zen Buddhism. He revitalized the Rinzai Zen tradition (which emphasizes the use of koans, or unanswerable questions, in meditation practice),...