NAME

Zen::Koans - Library containing over 100 Zen Koans.

SYNOPSIS

  use Zen::Koans qw(koan_as_html);
  print koan_as_html(1);

DESCRIPTION

A koan (pronounced /ko.an/) is a story, dialog, question, or statement in the history and lore of Chan (Zen) Buddhism, generally containing aspects that are inaccessible to rational understanding, yet that may be accessible to intuition.

This module contains over 100 Zen Koans, all taken from Ashidakim Zen Koans here: http://www.ashidakim.com/zenkoans/zenindex.html

INTERFACE

Zen::Koans provides two functions:

num_koans

The number of koans available.

get_koan( $koan_number )

Returns a Zen::Koan object or croaks if any arguments are not correct.

DEPENDENCIES

An open mind.

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

Provides no analysis of the meanings of these koans.

AUTHOR

Luke Closs <lukec@cpan.org> is the author of this module, but not of the Koans. Luke also checked the koans for errors and fixed many small typos.

Thanks to Jennifer Roger for her help with spellchecking.

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY

This module can only offer you so much. It is up to you to make the most of it.