NAME

Zen::Koans - Library containing over 100 Zen Koans.

SYNOPSIS

use Zen::Koans qw(koan_as_html);
print koan_as_html(1);

DESCRIPTION

A koan (pronounced /ko.an/) is a story, dialog, question, or statement in the history and lore of Chan (Zen) Buddhism, generally containing aspects that are inaccessible to rational understanding, yet that may be accessible to intuition.

This module contains over 100 Zen Koans, all taken from Ashidakim Zen Koans here: http://www.ashidakim.com/zenkoans/zenindex.html

INTERFACE

Zen::Koans exports 3 things:

@koans

An array containing all of the koans. Each element in the array is a hashref containing values for num, title and koan keys.

num_koans

The number of koans in @koans.

koan_as_html

Returns a HTML snippet containing the Koan (and title) for a given koan number. This can be used as part of an AJAX handler (for instance).

DEPENDENCIES

None

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

No bugs have been reported.

AUTHOR

Luke Closs <lukec@cpan.org>

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