One Robe, One Bowl The Zen Poetry of Ryokan

Name: One Robe, One Bowl The Zen Poetry of Ryokan
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ISBN: 9780834805705

ISBN-10: 0834805707

ISBN-13: 9780834805705

Edition: 2006

Authors: John Stevens

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The hermit-monk Ryokan, long beloved in Japan both for his poetry and for his character, belongs in the tradition of the great Zen eccentrics of China and Japan. His reclusive life and celebration of nature and the natural life also bring to mind his younger American contemporary, Thoreau. Ryokan's poetry is that of the mature Zen master, its deceptive simplicity revealing an art that surpasses artifice. Although Ryokan was born in eighteenth-century Japan, his extraordinary poems, capturing in a few luminous phrases both the beauty and the pathos of human life, reach far beyond time and place to touch the springs of humanity.

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Shambhala Publications, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/11/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 96
Size: 5.24" wide x 8.19" long x 0.28" tall
Weight: 0.242
Language: English