Viento del Sur

Southern Winds

Publications

    Viento del Sur publications is an area of the Maitreya Foundation dedicated to the spreading of the Dharma to the Spanish-speaking world.  It is made up of a team of Zen practitioners who translate and edit classic and contemporary texts related to the Dharma, Zen and socially engaged Buddhism. 

    Currently Viento del Sur is leading the project, “Aitken in Spanish,” translating and editing the works of Roshi Robert Aitken, renown pioneer of Zen and socially engaged Buddhism in the western world.

Project

AITKEN IN SPANISH

	Why Robert Aitken? Robert Aitken visited Argentina in 1989, where we met him, we trained with him and established a tie with him that has been inspiring us since then. He is one of the first western Zen masters. He has had rigorous training with renown Japanese masters and has taught the practice of Zen to thousands of personas since 1974. Reflected through his actions and writing is a strong commitment to the world and the times in which he lives, a sharp comprehension of the Dharma and faultless ethical conduct. He has left an inheritance of Zen teachers trained under him in the US, Europe, Australia and South America. He is author of more than a dozen books that are fundamental in the development of Zen Buddhism in the western world. Among his impressive works only three titles have been translated in Spanish. We are assuming the challenge of bringing his complete works to the Spanish-speaking world to inspire the many practitioners of Buddhism, students of religion, and spiritual seekers in general. Robert Aitken offical site: http://homepage.mac.com/haoleboy/roshi/  Aitken's Blog: http://robertaitken.blogspot.com/ Robert Aitken's Friends site : http://www.aitkenroshi.org/

Translation and Editing Team

    The translation and editing team is made up of Zen practitioners committed to the distribution of the teachings of Roshi Aitken and to the care and the quality of the translations.

• Translators: Ramón Blecua, Guillermo Stilstein, Nadina Holan, Pablo Altube y Ricardo Toledo
• Corrector: Andrés Goldberg
• General coordinator: Ricardo Toledo oversees the unity and integration of the whole project.
• Supervisor: Daniel Terragno Roshi, at the request of Aitken, supervises and checks for preserving the meaning of his teachings in the translations.
  
  

	Aitken's complete literary work includes the following books:           A ZEN WAVE TAKING THE PATH OF ZEN THE MIND OF CLOVER THE GATELESS BARRIER THE DRAGON WHO NEVER SLEEPS           ORIGINAL DWELLING PLACE ENCOURAGING WORDS THE GROUND WE SHARE (with David Steindl-Rast) PRACTICE OF PERFECTION MORNING STAR           ZEN MASTER RAVEN VEGETABLE ROOTS DISCOURSE (with Daniel W. Y. Kwok) MINIATURES OF A ZEN MASTER

Thank you for supporting our project Aitken in Spanish.