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I never became a devotee of the religion of zen, but kapleaus wonderful book has had a significant influence on the past thirty years of my life. With this practical guide to zen meditation, roshi kapleau ushered in the first wave of american zazen practitioners. Afterword to the three pillars of zen zen comes to the west when philip kapleau returned to the united states in 1966 after thirteen years of zen training in japan, he became one of only a few zen teachers living in north. Through explorations of the three pillars of zen teaching, practice, and enlightenmentroshi philip kapleau presents a comprehensive overview of the history and discipline of zen buddhism. In the interest of accessibility to a wide mathematical audience, we center our discussion around the theme of derived functors between abelian categories.