John C. H. Wu Book order

The spiritual journey of John C. H. Wu unfolds through a heartfelt narrative of his conversion to Catholicism in 1937 and his formative years as a believer. Celebrated as a modern equivalent to St. Augustine's Confessions, this autobiography offers profound insights into Wu's faith and intellectual growth. The new edition features a foreword by his son, John Wu, Jr., ensuring that this influential work reaches a contemporary audience seeking spiritual depth and inspiration from one of the twentieth century's notable Chinese Catholic thinkers.

Contains the same material as the 1961 printing published by St. John's University Press with the exception that the Chinese version of the text has been removed.

John C. H. Wu's classic work has long been the primary source for understanding the development of this hugely influential branch of Buddhism by students and teachers alike, and now, for the first time, it is available from an American publisher. The Golden Age of Zen explores the important period of religious history that followed the meeting of Buddhism with Chinese philosophies, most particularly Taoism. Wu looks first at the basic foundations of the school of Zen laid down in the sixth century by Bodhidharma and in the seventh century by Hui-neng, and then examines the magnificent flowering of the whole movement in the hands of successive generations of Chinese sages.