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Zen Poems of China and Japan: the Crane's Bill
Ikemoto, Takashai; Takayama, Taigan
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Paperback. Num Pages: 143 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1FPJ; DC; HREZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 135 x 13. Weight in Grams: 231.
Capturing in verse the ageless spirit of Zen, these 150 poems reflect the insight of famed masters from the ninth century to the nineteenth. The translators, in collaboration with Zen Master Taigan Takayama, have furnished illuminating commentary on the poems and arranged them as to facilitate comparison between the Chinese and Japanese Zen traditions. The poems themselves, rendered in clear and powerful English, offer a unique approach to Zen Buddhism, compared with which,’ as Lucien Stryk writes, the many disquisitions on its meaning are as dust to living earth. We see in these poems, as in all important religious art, ... Read more
Capturing in verse the ageless spirit of Zen, these 150 poems reflect the insight of famed masters from the ninth century to the nineteenth. The translators, in collaboration with Zen Master Taigan Takayama, have furnished illuminating commentary on the poems and arranged them as to facilitate comparison between the Chinese and Japanese Zen traditions. The poems themselves, rendered in clear and powerful English, offer a unique approach to Zen Buddhism, compared with which,’ as Lucien Stryk writes, the many disquisitions on its meaning are as dust to living earth. We see in these poems, as in all important religious art, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press United States
Number of pages
143
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780802130198
SKU
V9780802130198
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