{
  "type": "book",
  "site": {
    "name": "The Book Quiver",
    "language": "en-US",
    "url": "https://www.bookquiver.com"
  },
  "formats": "Every page has two versions with the same data: JSON (the page address + .json) and markdown (the page address + .md). Append .json or .md to any `url` in this document.",
  "title": "Illuminating Silence",
  "subtitle": null,
  "slug": "illuminating-silence",
  "url": "https://www.bookquiver.com/master-sheng-yen/illuminating-silence",
  "json": "https://www.bookquiver.com/master-sheng-yen/illuminating-silence.json",
  "markdown": "https://www.bookquiver.com/master-sheng-yen/illuminating-silence.md",
  "authors": [
    {
      "name": "Master Sheng-Yen",
      "slug": "master-sheng-yen",
      "url": "https://www.bookquiver.com/master-sheng-yen"
    },
    {
      "name": "John Crook",
      "slug": "john-crook",
      "url": "https://www.bookquiver.com/john-crook"
    }
  ],
  "language": "en_US",
  "original_title": null,
  "original_language": null,
  "first_published": "2018-07-17",
  "genres": [],
  "series": [],
  "cover": "https://quivercdn.com/covers/watkins-publishing/master-sheng-yen/illuminating-silence_978-17-8678-160-4.jpg?v=2026-06-09%2011%3A20%3A25",
  "description": "An insider's guide to the principles of Chan – or Chinese Zen – this book gives unfiltered access to the kind of illuminating experience with a Zen Master that is usually only available to...",
  "editions": [
    {
      "title": "Illuminating Silence",
      "subtitle": null,
      "url": "https://www.bookquiver.com/master-sheng-yen/illuminating-silence/9781786781604",
      "publisher": "Watkins Publishing",
      "publisher_series": [],
      "translators": [],
      "medium": "paper",
      "duration_seconds": null,
      "narrators": [],
      "illustrators": [],
      "cover_artists": [],
      "isbn": "978-17-8678-160-4",
      "pages": 176,
      "published": "2018-07-17",
      "language": "en_US",
      "cover": "https://quivercdn.com/covers/watkins-publishing/master-sheng-yen/illuminating-silence_978-17-8678-160-4.jpg?v=2026-06-09%2011%3A20%3A25"
    }
  ],
  "other_languages": [],
  "characters": [],
  "chapters": []
}