Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Total Pages: 96
Type:PDF / eBOOK / ePub
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.
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Total Pages: 119
Type:PDF / eBOOK / ePub
This collection of translations reflects the full spectrum of Ryokan's spiritual and poetic vision, including Japanese haiku, longer folk songs, and Chinese-style verse.
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Total Pages: 128
Type:PDF / eBOOK / ePub
This collection of Zen poetry by 19th century Japanese Buddhist monk and hermit Ryokan is a masterful exploration of life and nature.
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages: 325
Type:PDF / eBOOK / ePub
The volume also presents for the first time in English the Ryokan zenji kiwa (Curious Accounts of the Zen Master Ryokan), a firsthand source composed by a former student less than sixteen years after Ryokan's death.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 233
Type:PDF / eBOOK / ePub
This volume contains not only the largest English translation yet made of his principal poems, but also an introduction that sets the poetry in its historical and literary context and a biographical sketch of the poet himself.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 142
Type:PDF / eBOOK / ePub
Forty-three of these are included in the collection. To enrich the text, the original Japanese poems are provided in romanized form.
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Total Pages: 258
Type:PDF / eBOOK / ePub
This collection of translations of the classical Zen poets of China, Japan, and Korea includes the work of Zen practitioners and monks as well as scholars, artists, travelers, and recluses, ranging from Wang Wei, Hanshan, and Yang Wanli, to ...
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Total Pages: 70
Type:PDF / eBOOK / ePub
"The Mountain Poems of Stonehouse [is] a tough-spirited book of enlightened free verse."—Kyoto Journal The Zen master and mountain hermit Stonehouse—considered one of the greatest Chinese Buddhist poets—used poetry as his medium of ...
Publisher: Changemakers Books
Total Pages: 321
Type:PDF / eBOOK / ePub
A cult classic and bestseller in the 1990s, What the Buddha Never Taught is a humorous “behind the robes” account of life inside one of the strictest jungle monasteries in Southeast Asia.
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Total Pages: 244
Type:PDF / eBOOK / ePub
Over one thousand poems have been attributed to Li Po, many of them unpublished. This new collection includes poems not available in any other editions.
Publisher: Companions for the Journey (Wh
Total Pages: 0
Type:PDF / eBOOK / ePub
A wonderful collection by one of Japan's most beloved zen poets.
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Total Pages: 161
Type:PDF / eBOOK / ePub
In The First Free Women, Matty Weingast has reimagined this ancient collection and created a contemporary and radical adaptation that takes the essence of each poem and highlights the struggles and doubts, as well as the strength, ...
