It is with great pride that we announce the publication of The Garden of Flowers and Weeds: A New Translation and Commentary on The Blue Cliff Record by Matthew Juksan Sullivan.
This new translation and first contemporary commentary on the Blue Cliff Record offers readers a truly accessible version of this key Zen Buddhist text. Spirituality and Practice calls it: “A generation-defining rendering of one of the great Zen Buddhist scriptures.”
Since publication it was won numerous awards including a Gold Nautilus Award in Religion.
Matthew Juksan Sullivan was ordained at the Nine Mountains Zen Gate Society as a Dharma Teacher in 2006 and a Zen Master in 2013. He is a dharma heir of Hwasun Yangil Sunim, who was a dharma heir of Wol Ha Sunim, a Grand Zen Master and the former Supreme Patriarch of the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism.
Copies are available now on Amazon at a 53% discount: New Blue Cliff at Amazon
A limited number of galleys for review are also available from Monkfish by writing paul@monkfishpublishing.com
Blue Cliff resources from the author are available here: https://www.bluecliffrecord.ca/commentaries/
