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Zen Stories to Tell Your Neighbors

Subject Area:

Language Arts

Address/URL:

http://www.rider.edu/users/suler/zenstory/zenstory.html

Description:

This web site is a collection of Zen and Taoist tales from the Orient. Why should you read them, let alone tell them to your neighbors? They can do much more than entertain and allow a peek into a different culture. They will surely instill the love of story telling and discussion about interpretation in everyone who opens his/her mind up to them. So if you are in need of a discussion starter, go right ahead and dig deep into this collection!

How You Can Use This Source:

• Read and compare these stories to ones from the Western tradition.
• Write an essay explaining your interpretation of a Zen story.
• Write your own Zen story!

Go to Zen Stories to Tell Your Neighbors.

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