# Rational Zen

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- Book: [Rational Zen](https://www.bookquiver.com/thomas-cleary/rational-zen) ([Rational Zen.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/thomas-cleary/rational-zen.md))
- Authors: [Thomas Cleary](https://www.bookquiver.com/thomas-cleary)
- Publisher: shambhala
- ISBN: 978-15-7062-634-0
- Pages: 232
- Published: 2001-05-01
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Zen has often been portrayed as being illogical and mystifying, even aimed at the destruction of the rational intellect. These new translations of the thirteenth-century Zen master Dogen—one of most...