A Zen Harvest (eBook, ePUB)

Japanese Folk Zen Sayings (Haiku, Dodoitsu, and Waka)
Übersetzer: Shigematsu, Soiku

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

One of the vital aspects of traditional Rinzai Zen koan study in Japan is jakugo, or capping-phrase exercises. When Zen students have attained sufficient mastery of meditation or concentration, they are given a koan (such as the familiar "What is the sound of one hand clapping?") to study. When the student provides a satisfactory response to the koan, he advances to the jakugo exercise-he must select a "capping phrase," usually a passage from a poem among the thousands in a special anthology, the only book allowed in the monastery.

One such anthology, written entirely in Chinese, was translated by noted Zen priest and scholar Soiku Shigematsu as A Zen Forest: Sayings of the Masters. Equally important is a Japanese collection, the Zenrin Segoshu, which Mr. Shigematsu now translates from the Japanese, including nearly eight hundred poems in sparkling English versions that retain the Zen implications of the verse.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781466895416
• Artikelnr.: 44374923

Autorenporträt

Compiled and translated by Soiku Shigematsu; Foreword by Robert Aitken