For more than four decades, Robert Aitken Roshi has taught thousands of people the Buddhist practice of Zen meditation and has led hundreds through their practice of the study of traditional koans. He has authored more than a dozen books; volumes of commentary on sacred texts; works on ethics, daily life and social action; and one of the best-loved introductions to Zen Buddhism, Taking the Path of Zen. To culminate a long and remarkable life - he recently celebrated his 91st birthday - Aitken Roshi offers a collection of 266 short texts in Miniatures of a Zen Master.