# Shifting Shape, Shaping Text, Vol. 1

By **Steven Heine**

- ISBN-13: 9780824821975
- Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 232
- Published: 31 Mar 2000

## About this book

According to the "Fox Koan", the second case in the "Wu-men Kuan Koan" collection, Zen master Pai-chang encounters a fox who claims to be a former abbot punished through endless reincarnations for denying the efficacy of karmic causality. Most traditional interpretations of the "Koan" focus on the philosophical issue o

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