Poet Monks

Author : Thomas J. Mazanec
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501773846

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Poet-Monks by Thomas J. Mazanec Pdf

Poet-Monks focuses on the literary and religious practices of Buddhist poet-monks in Tang-dynasty China to propose an alternative historical arc of medieval Chinese poetry. Combining large-scale quantitative analysis with close readings of important literary texts, Thomas J. Mazanec describes how Buddhist poet-monks, who first appeared in the latter half of Tang-dynasty China, asserted a bold new vision of poetry that proclaimed the union of classical verse with Buddhist practices of repetition, incantation, and meditation. Mazanec traces the historical development of the poet-monk as a distinct actor in the Chinese literary world, arguing for the importance of religious practice in medieval literature. As they witnessed the collapse of the world around them, these monks wove together the frayed threads of their traditions to establish an elite-style Chinese Buddhist poetry. Poet-Monks shows that during the transformative period of the Tang-Song transition, Buddhist monks were at the forefront of poetic innovation.

Author : Thomas J. Mazanec
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501773853

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Poet-Monks by Thomas J. Mazanec Pdf

Poet-Monks focuses on the literary and religious practices of Buddhist poet-monks in Tang-dynasty China to propose an alternative historical arc of medieval Chinese poetry. Combining large-scale quantitative analysis with close readings of important literary texts, Thomas J. Mazanec describes how Buddhist poet-monks, who first appeared in the latter half of Tang-dynasty China, asserted a bold new vision of poetry that proclaimed the union of classical verse with Buddhist practices of repetition, incantation, and meditation. Mazanec traces the historical development of the poet-monk as a distinct actor in the Chinese literary world, arguing for the importance of religious practice in medieval literature. As they witnessed the collapse of the world around them, these monks wove together the frayed threads of their traditions to establish an elite-style Chinese Buddhist poetry. Poet-Monks shows that during the transformative period of the Tang-Song transition, Buddhist monks were at the forefront of poetic innovation.

Author : Red Pine,Mike O'Connor
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780861711437

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The Clouds Should Know Me By Now by Red Pine,Mike O'Connor Pdf

Presents the translated verse of fourteen Chinese Buddhist poet monks whorote between the T'ang Dynasty and the early twentieth century.

Author : Red Pine,Mike O'Connor
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2005-06-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780861719532

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The Clouds Should Know Me By Now by Red Pine,Mike O'Connor Pdf

This unique collection presents the verse, much of it translated for the first time, of fourteen eminent Chinese Buddhist poet monks. Featuring the original Chinese as well as english translations and historical introductions by Burton Watson, J.P. Seaton, Paul Hansen, James Sanford, and the editors, this book provides an appreciation and understanding of this elegant and traditional expression of spirituality. "So take a walk with...these cranky, melancholy, lonely, mischievous poet-ancestors. Their songs are stout as a pilgrim's stave or a pair of good shoes, and were meant to be taken on the great journey." --Andrew Schelling, from his Introduction

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1998-04-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781462916498

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Japanese Death Poems by Anonim Pdf

"A wonderful introduction the Japanese tradition of jisei, this volume is crammed with exquisite, spontaneous verse and pithy, often hilarious, descriptions of the eccentric and committed monastics who wrote the poems." --Tricycle: The Buddhist Review Although the consciousness of death is, in most cultures, very much a part of life, this is perhaps nowhere more true than in Japan, where the approach of death has given rise to a centuries-old tradition of writing jisei, or the "death poem." Such a poem is often written in the very last moments of the poet's life. Hundreds of Japanese death poems, many with a commentary describing the circumstances of the poet's death, have been translated into English here, the vast majority of them for the first time. Yoel Hoffmann explores the attitudes and customs surrounding death in historical and present-day Japan and gives examples of how these have been reflected in the nation's literature in general. The development of writing jisei is then examined--from the longing poems of the early nobility and the more "masculine" verses of the samurai to the satirical death poems of later centuries. Zen Buddhist ideas about death are also described as a preface to the collection of Chinese death poems by Zen monks that are also included. Finally, the last section contains three hundred twenty haiku, some of which have never been assembled before, in English translation and romanized in Japanese.

Author : Thomas P. Nielson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UVA:X000774081

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The Tʻang Poet-monk Chiao-jan by Thomas P. Nielson Pdf

Author : Scott Sophfronia,Taylor Brown, Barbara
Publisher : Broadleaf Books
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781506464961

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The Seeker and the Monk by Scott Sophfronia,Taylor Brown, Barbara Pdf

What if we truly belong to each other? What if we are all walking around shining like the sun? Mystic, monk, and activist Thomas Merton asked those questions in the twentieth century. Writer Sophfronia Scott is asking them today. In The Seeker and the Monk, Scott mines the extensive private journals of one of the most influential contemplative thinkers of the past for guidance on how to live in these fraught times. As a Black woman who is not Catholic, Scott both learns from and pushes back against Merton, holding spirited, and intimate conversations on race, ambition, faith, activism, nature, prayer, friendship, and love. She asks: What is the connection between contemplation and action? Is there ever such a thing as a wrong answer to a spiritual question? How do we care about the brutality in the world while not becoming overwhelmed by it? By engaging in this lively discourse, readers will gain a steady sense of how to dwell more deeply within--and even to love--this despairing and radiant world.

Author : Thomas P. Nielson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015013106821

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The Tʻang Poet-monk Chiao-jan by Thomas P. Nielson Pdf

Author : Adrie Kusserow
Publisher : BOA Editions, Ltd.
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Education
ISBN : 1929918232

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Hunting Down the Monk by Adrie Kusserow Pdf

Drawing from her work in comparative religion and cultural anthropology, Adrie Kusserow offers a collection of portraits of Westerners in the East and Easterners in the West struggling to relearn and relive their ideas of culture, religion, and God. These poems expose the human craving for the nourishment of a spiritual life. Celebrated poet Karen Swenson has written the Foreword. Adrie Kusserow received her Ph.D. in social anthropology from Harvard University in 1996 and is currently associate professor of cultural anthropology at St. Michael's College in Vermont. She continues to do cross-cultural field work on the spread of Eastern philosophies to the West.

Author : Stonehouse
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781619321182

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The Mountain Poems of Stonehouse by Stonehouse Pdf

A bilingual Chinese-English volume of mountain poems from a Zen master.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Artists' books
ISBN : UCSC:32106008742030

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The Nine Monks by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jason Protass
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780824889074

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The Poetry Demon by Jason Protass Pdf

Chinese Buddhist monks of the Song dynasty (960–1279) called the irresistible urge to compose poetry “the poetry demon.” In this ambitious study, Jason Protass seeks to bridge the fields of Buddhist studies and Chinese literature to examine the place of poetry in the lives of Song monks. Although much has been written about verses in the gong’an (Jpn. kōan) tradition, very little is known about the large corpora—roughly 30,000 extant poems—composed by these monastics. Protass addresses the oversight by using strategies associated with religious studies, literary studies, and sociology. He weaves together poetry with a wide range of monastic sources and in doing so argues against positing a “literary Chan” movement that wrote poetry as a path to awakening; he instead presents an understanding of monks’ poetry grounded in the Song discourse of monks themselves. The work begins by examining how monks fashioned new genres, created their own books, and fueled a monastic audience for monks’ poetry. It traces the evolution of gāthā from hymns found in Buddhist scripture to an independent genre for poems associated with Chan masters as living buddhas. While Song monastic culture produced a prodigious amount of verse, at the same time it promoted prohibitions against monks’ participation in poetry as a worldly or Confucian art: This constructive tension was an animating force. The Poetry Demon highlights this and other intersections of Buddhist doctrine with literary sociality and charts productive pathways through numerous materials, including collections of Chan “recorded sayings,” monastic rulebooks, “eminent monk” and “flame record” hagiographies, manuscripts of poetry, Buddhist encyclopedia, primers, and sūtra commentary. Two chapter-length case studies illustrate how Song monks participated in two of the most prominent and conservative modes of poetry of the time, those of parting and mourning. Protass reveals how monks used Chan humor with reference to emptiness to transform acts of separation into Buddhist teachings. In another chapter, monks in mourning expressed their grief and dharma through poetry. The Poetry Demon impressively uncovers new and creative ways to study Chinese Buddhist monks’ poetry while contributing to the broader study of Chinese religion and literature.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : China
ISBN : UOM:39015060860247

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Programme for the XVth Conference of the European Association of Chinese Studies: Heidelberg, August 25-29, 2004 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Cees Nooteboom
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0857425471

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Monk's Eye by Cees Nooteboom Pdf

First published in Dutch as Monniksoog by Karaat in 2016.

Author : Marian Ury
Publisher : U of M Center For Japanese Studies
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780472038374

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Poems of the Five Mountains by Marian Ury Pdf

This second, revised edition of a pioneering volume, long out of print, presents translations of Japanese Zen poems on sorrow, old age, homesickness, the seasons, the ravages of time, solitude, the scenic beauty of the landscape of Japan, and monastic life. Composed by Japanese Zen monks who lived from the last quarter of the thirteenth century to the middle of the fifteenth century, these poems represent a portion of the best of the writing called in Japanese gozan bungaku, “literature of the five mountains.” “Five mountains” or “five monasteries” refers to the system by which the Zen monasteries were hierarchically ordered and governed. For the monks in the monasteries, poetry functioned as a means not only of expressing religious convictions and personal feelings but also of communicating with others in a civilized and courteous fashion. Effacing barriers of time and space, the practice of Chinese poetry also made it possible for Japanese authors to feel at one with their Chinese counterparts and the great poets of antiquity. This was a time when Zen as an institution was being established and contact with the Chinese mainland becoming increasingly frequent—ten of the sixteen poets represented here visited China. Marian Ury has provided a short but substantial introduction to the Chinese poetry of Japanese gozan monasteries, and her translations of the poetry are masterful. Poems of the Five Mountains is an important work for anyone interested in Japanese literature, Chinese literature, East Asian Religion, and Zen Buddhism.