Squabbling Squashes
Will be published approx. on 22. July 2021
Book
Hardback
32 pages
978-1-61429-693-5 (ISBN)
Description
"A story for all ages about interconnection and learning to live in harmony amid differences, from a leading light of contemporary Zen-based on a parable from Kosho Uchiyama's classic bestseller Opening the Hand of Thought. Features a contextualizing afterword by Shohaku Okumura. [Amplify what kids will benefit from reading this book] "It's true that we are all different squashes . . . some are bigger and some are smaller . . . some are rounder and some are longer. But even if we are different, we are all connected. We are all growing together. We don't have to be such squabbling squashes.""--
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Language
English
Place of publication
Somerville
United States
Target group
Children/juvenile
Interest Age: From 3 to 7 years
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 256 mm
Width: 207 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
310 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-61429-693-5 (9781614296935)
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Carol Lingman | Okumura Shohaku
Squabbling Squashes
E-Book
06/2021
Wisdom Publications
€12.85
Available for download
Persons
Carol Lingman is a Zen practitioner and retired editor, living in Sonoma County, California, where she practices East Asian calligraphy and the Feldenkrais Method. She has written and edited many educational, environmental, and movement studies publications for adults. This is her first children’s book.
Shohaku Okumura is a Soto Zen priest and Dharma successor of Kosho Uchiyama Roshi. He is a graduate of Komazawa University and has practiced in Japan at Antaiji, Zuioji, and the Kyoto Soto Zen Center, and in Massachusetts at the Pioneer Valley Zendo. He is the former director of the Soto Zen Buddhism International Center in San Francisco. His previously published books of translation include Shobogenzo Zuimonki, Dogen Zen, Zen Teachings of Homeless Kodo, and Opening the Hand of Thought. Okumura is also editor of Dogen Zen and Its Relevance for Our Time and SotoZen. He is the founding teacher of the Sanshin Zen Community, based in Bloomington, Indiana, where he lives with his family.
Minette Mangahas is an artist and designer whose calligraphy-inspired work has been featured internationally. When not illustrating squashes, she’s eating them.
Shohaku Okumura is a Soto Zen priest and Dharma successor of Kosho Uchiyama Roshi. He is a graduate of Komazawa University and has practiced in Japan at Antaiji, Zuioji, and the Kyoto Soto Zen Center, and in Massachusetts at the Pioneer Valley Zendo. He is the former director of the Soto Zen Buddhism International Center in San Francisco. His previously published books of translation include Shobogenzo Zuimonki, Dogen Zen, Zen Teachings of Homeless Kodo, and Opening the Hand of Thought. Okumura is also editor of Dogen Zen and Its Relevance for Our Time and SotoZen. He is the founding teacher of the Sanshin Zen Community, based in Bloomington, Indiana, where he lives with his family.
Minette Mangahas is an artist and designer whose calligraphy-inspired work has been featured internationally. When not illustrating squashes, she’s eating them.