Zen kōans: Unsolvable enigmas designed to break your brain - Puqun Li
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How do we explain the unexplainable? This question has inspired numerous myths, religious practices and scientific inquiries. But Zen Buddhists practicing throughout China from the 9th to 13th century asked a different question – why do we need an explanation? Puqun Li details the bewildering and ambiguous philosophical thought experiments these Buddhists called Zen kōans.
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Meet The Creators
- Educator
- Puqun Li
- Director
- Felipe Grosso, Odirlei Seixas
- Script Editor
- Dan Kwartler
- Senior Animator
- Daniel Freire, Mateus Contini
- Producer
- Felipe Grosso, Odirlei Seixas, Liana Abatti
