Many apologies for yesterday’s long downtime on our main server. The hard drive chose a Sunday to give up the ghost, so it was replaced and tweaked back into life.

It had been playing up for a few weeks, so — digits crossed — it will be fit for purpose in future.

Where does the Zen come in?

A Life of Rinzai by John M Evans. In the Zen Masters Series.

For anyone following our Zen Masters’ series over on Spiritual Nirvana, the sixth and final biography is now underway :

The life of Rinzai (Lin Chi) is an interesting one. Not only did he found the famous Rinzai Zen school in Japan, but he also had a hilarious, and violent, relationship with his teacher Huang Po, who was the subject of our previous biography.

To read the life of Rinzai click here.