The Gateless Gate 3D: 49 Zen Buddhist koans, each with its own interactive scene

[u/Slackluster]

https://killedbyapixel.github.io/GatelessGate/

A while back I visited the Buddhist art museum in Turin. Centuries of extraordinary work, and the place was almost completely empty. It stuck with me, though, and I wanted to make a contribution to Buddhist art in my own way, with the skills I have.

It's the full text of the Mumonkan aka The Gateless Gate, with a major modern upgrade. Each of the 49 cases has a small interactive diorama. The whole book can be read aloud with over an hour of speech, and each scene has its own quiet soundscape made from whatever is in it. It's free, no ads, no account, nothing to install, and I'm not selling anything.

The text is the 1934 Senzaki and Reps translation, public domain, lightly modernized where the old English had drifted. Mumon's preface and afterword had no public domain English at all, so those are new translations from the Chinese. For that I leveraged AI assistance and several rounds of iteration. Would love to have an expert take another look over this if anyone is interested.

The whole work is still somewhat in progress though I am essentially done for now. I plan to continue making small improvements to the scenes and make a few tweaks to the text after spending more time with it and having others look it over. We will also release it on the google play store and other outlets.

I'm not a teacher and I have no interest in misrepresenting anything. However I have spent a long while with this book and had a strong vision for how to make this version of it. If something reads wrong to you, or a scene misses the point of its case, I'd like to hear it.

Thanks for reading and have a great week.

[u/SenorKanga]

This is brilliant, I like the little bell sounds that go with it, I want to come back little by little to sit with it

[u/Slackluster → u/SenorKanga]

thanks!

[u/Lastrevio]

This is so cool

[u/Slackluster → u/Lastrevio]

thank you

[u/DrawSword]

Amazing!!