The title is an apparent play on the title of the book Zen in the Art of Archery by Eugen Herrigel.

In its introduction, Pirsig explains that, despite its title, " it should in no way be associated with that great body of factual information relating to orthodox Zen Buddhist practice.

The title is a play on the words " obscene " and " Zen "; in addition, " ob " means " anti " in Latin.

The Gateless Gate, which is a 13th-century collection of Chan or Zen kōans, uses the word wu or mu in its title ( Wumenguan or Mumonkan 無門關 ) and first kōan case (" Joshu's Dog " 趙州狗子 ).

Blofeld says his memorial pagoda is " The Tower of Spacious Karma " and that it was Emperor Hsüan Tsung who gave him the title " The Zen Master Who Destroys All Limitations ".

The full title of the work is Chan Zong Wumen Guan 禅宗無門關, and can be translated as The Zen Sect's Gateless Barrier or The Gateless Checkpoint of the Zen Lineage, etc.

As the Zen Lineage comes first in the title it is appropriately translated by using the possessive at the beginning or transposing it to the end of the title and using the preposition " of the ".

In the late 1960s, Enomiya-Lasalle was certified as a teacher in Yamada's Sanbo Kyodan sect and given the title roshi ( Zen master ), while professing his continued belief in Christianity.

( Japanese: " old teacher "; " old master "; Chinese ) is an honorific title used for a highly venerated senior teacher in Zen Buddhism.

Despite this historical reality it has come in some modern Zen schools to be applied as an general title for a teacher regardless of the age of the individual who receives it.

Many Zen communities in the United States confer the honorific title of rōshi to their teachers as a regular title, in deference to perceived Japanese Zen tradition.

Stuart Lachs has argued that Zen institutions in the West have often attributed a mythic status to the title rōshi with harmful consequences.

He studied Rinzai Zen, attaining the title of roshi.

In his Dogen's Manuals of Zen Meditation, Carl Bielefeldt acknowledges that Dogen likely took the title from Dahui for his first Shōbōgenzō koan collection and kept it for his following Shōbōgenzō commentary collection:

He received the title Dendo Kyoshi ( or, Zen teacher ) from the Soto School of Japan in 1995.

Rose gave a series of lectures in the 1970s which outlined his approach to Zen and which incorporated the term Zen in the title: The Psychology of Zen ; Zen and Common Sense ; Zen and Death ; etc.

In recognition of Knuth's contributions to the field of computer science, in 1990 he was awarded the one-of-a-kind academic title of Professor of The Art of Computer Programming, which has since been revised to Professor Emeritus of The Art of Computer Programming.

Chambers, in 1728, followed the earlier lead of John Harris's Lexicon Technicum of 1704 and later editions ( see also below ); this work was by its title and content " A Universal English Dictionary of Arts and Sciences: Explaining not only the Terms of Art, but the Arts Themselves ".

John Harris is often credited with introducing the now-familiar alphabetic format in 1704 with his English Lexicon Technicum: Or, A Universal English Dictionary of Arts and Sciences: Explaining not only the Terms of Art, but the Arts Themselves – to give its full title.

Scorsese changed the title from Season of the Witch to Mean Streets, a reference to Raymond Chandler's essay " The Simple Art of Murder ", where he writes, " But down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid.

Similar instructions were published in 1747 in The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Simple by Hannah Glasse under the title of ' Yorkshire pudding '.

The journal ’ s name changed from its original title to Intellectual Observer: A Review of Natural History, Microscopic Research, and Recreative Science and then later to the Student and Intellectual Observer of Science, Literature, and Art.

* Han Dynasty China: The full title of the Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art appears on two bronze standard measures dated to this year, yet there is speculation that the same book existed beforehand only under different titles.

* British — Ali Campbell: " Nothing Ever Changes ( Pierrot )", from Flying High ( 2009 ); David Bowie: Pierrot in Turquoise ( 1993 ; includes following songs from the film of the same title: " Threepenny Pierrot ", " Columbine ", " The Mirror ", " When I Live My Dream & 2 "); Michael Moorcock and the Deep Fix: " Birthplace of Harlequin ", " Columbine Confused ", " Pierrot's Song of Positive Thinking ", and " Pierrot in the Roof Garden ", from The Entropy Tango and Gloriana Demo Sessions ( 2008 ); Petula Clark: " Pierrot pendu " (" Hanged Pierrot "), from Hello Mister Brown ( 1966 ); Placebo: " Pierrot the Clown ", from Meds ( 2006 ); Rick Wakeman: " The Dancing Pierrot ", from The Art in Music Trilogy ( 1999 ); Soft Machine: " Thank You Pierrot Lunaire ", from Volume Two ( 1969 ).

gramma meant letter, and this title means " Art of letters "), possibly written by Dionysius Thrax, lists eight parts of speech, and lays out the broad details of Greek morphology including the case structures.

In 2003, under the title A Dead Shark Isn't Art, the gallery exhibited a shark which had first been put on public display in 1989 ( two years before Damien Hirst's ) by Eddie Saunders in his Shoreditch shop, JD Electrical Supplies.

A decade later John Sheepshanks gave his collection to the South Kensington Museum ( later the Victoria & Albert Museum ), known for years as the National Gallery of Art ( the same title as the Tate Gallery had ).

The word " Art " was dropped from the title in 1922.

" From over two hundred suggestions and consultations with staff, students and local residents, communities and businesses, the University chose Anglia Ruskin University ( thus incorporating into the title the surname of John Ruskin, who founded the Cambridge School of Art in 1858, which eventually became the university ), with the new name taking effect following the approval of the Privy Council on 29 September 2005.

Tijuana also has a very active and independent artist community whose internationally recognized work has earned Tijuana the title of " one of the most important new cultural meccas ", according to Newsweek., an exhibition of Tijuana's current art scene, is being curated by the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego and is traveling across the USA in 2006 and 2007.

This was initially applied to the whole museum, but when that new building finally opened ten years later, the title was confined to the Art Collections and the Science Collections had to be divorced from it.

Art Davie proposed to Rorion Gracie and John Milius an eight-man single-elimination tournament with a title of War of the Worlds.

Recordings from this trip were issued under the title Sounds of the South and some were also featured in the Coen brothers ’ film Oh Brother, Where Art Thou.

Degenerate Art was also the title of an exhibition, mounted by the Nazis in Munich in 1937, consisting of modernist artworks chaotically hung and accompanied by text labels deriding the art.

Among the fighters he defeated during that streak were Steve Zouski, Art Card, future WBO cruiserweight champion Johnny Nelson, and future world title challenger Bert Cooper.

After working at a theater as an usher, songbook agent, actor, and manager ( including the Palace Theater in Buffalo, New York ), he founded Pacific Title and Art in 1919, where most of his business was producing title cards for silent films.

The full title of The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art appears on two bronze standard measures which are dated to 179 CE, but there is speculation that the same book existed beforehand under different titles.

It was completed, under the title of The History of Our Lord in Art, by Lady Eastlake.

Morrison had six wins in 1992, including fights with Art Tucker and Joe Hipp, who would later become the first Native American to challenge for the world heavyweight title.

Reade was an amateur of the violin, and among his works is an essay on Cremona violins with the title, " A Lost Art Revived.

You may do well to take notice, that besides the title to land between the English and the Indians there, there are twelve of the English that have subscribed their names to horrible and detestable blasphemies, who are rather to be judged as blasphemous than they should delude us by winning time under pretence of arbitration ''.

The Attorney General shall assign such officers and employees of the Department of Justice as may be necessary to represent the United States as to any claims of the Government of the United States with respect to which the Commission has jurisdiction under this title.

The office may also be given as an honorary title to a clergyman who is not actually the head of a monastery.

In Greek practice the title or function of Abbot corresponds to a person who actually serves as the head of a monastery, although the title of the Archimandrite may be given to any celibate priest who could serve as the head of a monastery.

* Junior Principal / Partner: Recently made a partner or principal of the firm ; title may include vice president.

There are exceptions to this title ; many private clubs and religious organizations may not be bound by Title III.

It is during this period that Bishop Asser applied to him the unique title of " secundarius ", which may indicate a position akin to that of the Celtic tanist, a recognised successor closely associated with the reigning monarch.

Robert Castleden suggests Plato may have borrowed his title from Hellanicus, and that Hellanicus may have based his work on an earlier work on Atlantis.

This means that the Justice keeps his or her title, and may serve by assignment on panels of the U. S. Courts of Appeals.

As a result, most scholars consider the book of Malachi to be the work of a single author who may or may not have been identified by the title Malachi.

* categorizing and prioritizing rights to property — for example, the same article of property often has a " legal title " and an " equitable title ," and these two groups of ownership rights may be held by different people.

Typically, C-level managers are " higher " than Vice Presidents, although many times a C-level officer may also hold a vice president title, such as Executive Vice President and CFO.

** The CEO may also hold the title of chairman, resulting in an executive chairman.

This title is often concurrently held by the treasurer in a dual position called secretary-treasurer ; both positions may be concurrently held by the CFO.

The Principal title is often used in dual career ladder organizations and may be equivalent to manager or director.

They may on such elevation take a vacant " title " ( a church allotted to a cardinal priest as the Roman church with which he is associated ) or their diaconal church may be temporarily elevated to a cardinal priest's " title " for that occasion.

Branch churches of The Mother Church may take the title of First Church of Christ, Scientist ; Second ; but the article The must not be used, presumably to concede the primacy of the Boston Mother Church.

The title of a map may provide the " needed link " necessary for communicating that message, but the overall design of the map fosters the manner in which the reader interprets it ( Monmonier, 1993, pp. 93 ).