The Poetry Of Zen

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Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780834825086
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poetry of Zen written by and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2007-02-13 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Zen poem is nothing other than an expression of the enlightened mind, a handful of simple words that disappear beneath the moment of insight to which it bears witness. Poetry has been an essential aid to Zen Buddhist practice from the dawn of Zen—and Zen has also had a profound influence on the secular poetry of the countries in which it has flourished. Here, two of America’s most renowned poets and translators provide an overview of Zen poetry from China and Japan in all its rich variety, from the earliest days to the twentieth century. Included are works by Lao Tzu, Han Shan, Li Po, Dogen Kigen, Saigyo, Basho, Chiao Jan, Yuan Mei, Ryokan, and many others. Hamill and Seaton provide illuminating introductions to the Chinese and Japanese sections that set the poets and their work in historical and philosophical context. Short biographies of the poets are also included.

Author : Lucien Stryk
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802198244
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zen Poetry written by Lucien Stryk and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the editors of Zen Poems of China and Japan comes the largest and most comprehensive collection of its kind to appear in English. This collaboration between a Japanese scholar and an American poet has rendered translations both precise and sublime, and their selections, which span fifteen hundred years—from the early T’ang dynasty to the present day—include many poems that have never before been translated into English. Stryk and Ikemoto offer us Zen poetry in all its diversity: Chinese poems of enlightenment and death, poems of the Japanese masters, many haiku—the quintessential Zen art—and an impressive selection of poems by Shinkichi Takahashi, Japan’s greatest contemporary Zen poet. With Zen Poetry, Lucien Stryk and Takashi Ikemoto have graced us with a compellingly beautiful collection, which in their translations is pure literary pleasure, illuminating the world vision to which these poems give permanent expression.

Author : Peter Harris
Publisher : Everyman's Library
ISBN 13 : 0375405526
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zen Poems written by Peter Harris and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 1999-03-23 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The appreciation of Zen philosophy and art has become universal, and Zen poetry, with its simple expression of direct, intuitive insight and sudden enlightenment, appeals to lovers of poetry, spirituality, and beauty everywhere. 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 Shinkei, Basho, and Ryokan.

Author : Manuela Dunn-Mascetti
Publisher : Hyperion
ISBN 13 : 9780786862511
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Haiku written by Manuela Dunn-Mascetti and published by Hyperion. This book was released on 1998-12-02 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient Japanese verse form of haiku, which is used for the expression of Zen, consists of three lines and 17 syllables - the length of a human breath. This anthology includes selections from the works of authors from the classical Matsuo Basho to contemporary poets Koko Kato and Keiko Ito. The book is part of a three-volume series which also includes "Koans: the Lessons of Zen" and "Sayings: the Wisdom of Zen".

Author : Jerome P. Seaton
Publisher : White Pine Press
ISBN 13 : 9781877727375
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Drifting Boat written by Jerome P. Seaton and published by White Pine Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. This anthology gathers together over 1500 years of Chinese Zen (Ch'an) poetry from the earliest writing, including the Hsin Hsin Ming written by the 3rd Patriarch, to the poetry of monks in this century. Poets include Wang Wei, Li Po, Tu Fu, Yuan Mei, the crazy hermits Han-shan and Shih-te, as well as many anonymous monks and hermits.

Author : John Stevens
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 0834824965
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One Robe, One Bowl written by John Stevens and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2006-04-11 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Manu Bazzano
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780740723797
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zen Poems written by Manu Bazzano and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology presenting a collection of Zen poetry from both contemporary and traditional poets.

Author : Lucien Stryk
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802198260
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zen Poems of China and Japan written by Lucien Stryk and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Excellent . . . A fine introduction to Chinese and Japanese Zen poetry for all readers” from the editors of Zen Poetry: Let the Spring Breeze Enter (Choice). 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.” “One of the most intimate and dynamic books yet published on Zen.” —Sanford Goldstein, Arizona Quarterly

Author : Dick Allen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1614293201
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zen Master Poems written by Dick Allen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique voice in American poetry evocative of Han Shan’s Zen verses, Pablo Neruda’s Book of Questions, and the writings of Jack Kerouac. What a long conversation we never had! All those rivers? we never crossed together. You so busy with your own life, I so busy with mine. Dick Allen, one of the founders of the Expansive Poetry movement, has won the Robert Frost Prize, the Hart Crane Poetry Prize, and the Pushcart Prize—among others. His work has been anthologized five times in the Best American Poetry volumes, and has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Tricycle, The Buddhist Poetry Review, and The American Poetry Review, as well as numerous other publications. He’s a former fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts, and a former Poet Laureate for the state of Connecticut, where he lives and writes.

Author : Lucien Stryk
Publisher : Puffin
ISBN 13 : 9780140585995
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Penguin Book of Zen Poetry written by Lucien Stryk and published by Puffin. This book was released on 1988-03-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This superb anthology, the largest and most comprehensive of its kind to appear in English, is the work of an American poet and a Japanese scholar.