Abstract: Chapter 8 seeks to uncover the historical origins of kinhin, the ritual of walking meditation as it has been practiced in the St school of Japanese Zen. Practiced today between periods of zazen, the St style of kinhin entails an exceptionally slow pace of walking in order to coordinate each step with a full cycle of respiration. Although St monks typically attribute this practice to the founding figure, Dgen and his teacher in China, Riggs finds the origins of the practice considerably later than this in the eighteenth century St leader Menzan Zuih's writings, the Kinhinki, a brief text describing the practice of kinhin, and the Kinhinkimonge, a commentary connecting this practice to traditional Buddhist texts.

Keywords: St Zen, Menzan Zuih, kinhin, walking meditation, inhinki,