
One Robe, One Bowl
The Zen Poetry of Ryokan
Weatherhill Inc (Publisher)
Published on 11. April 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
88 pages
978-0-8348-0570-5 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Boston
United States
Publishing group
Shambhala Publications Inc
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 209 mm
Width: 137 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
113 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8348-0570-5 (9780834805705)
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04/2006
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Book
09/1977
Weatherhill Inc
€33.61
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Persons
John Stevens, Ryokan