| Zen Poems of China & Japan Contributor(s): Stryk, Lucien (Editor), Stryk, Lucien (Translator), Ikemoto, Takashi (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0802130194 ISBN-13: 9780802130198 Publisher: Grove Press OUR PRICE: $12.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1994 Annotation: Capturing in verse the ageless spirit of Zen, these 150 poems reflect the insights 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 so as to facilitate comparison between the Chinese and Japanese Zen traditions. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Asian - General - Poetry | Anthologies (multiple Authors) - Religion | Buddhism - Zen (see Also Philosophy - Zen) |
| Dewey: 895.110 |
| LCCN: 87007450 |
| Series: Evergreen Book |
| Physical Information: 0.53" H x 5.36" W x 8.21" (0.52 lbs) 208 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian - Cultural Region - Chinese - Cultural Region - Japanese - Religious Orientation - Buddhist |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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, East or West, revelations of spiritual truths touched by a kind of divinity." |