Zen Poems

Author : Peter Harris
Publisher : Everyman's Library
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1999-03-23
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780375405525

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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 : Lucien Stryk,Takashi Ikemoto
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780802198242

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Zen Poetry by Lucien Stryk,Takashi Ikemoto Pdf

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 : Anonim
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2007-02-13
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0834825082

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The Poetry of Zen by Anonim Pdf

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 : Dick Allen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-23
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781614293200

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Zen Master Poems by Dick Allen Pdf

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,Takashi Ikemoto
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780802198266

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Zen Poems of China and Japan by Lucien Stryk,Takashi Ikemoto Pdf

“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 : Manu Bazzano
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0740723790

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Zen Poems by Manu Bazzano Pdf

An anthology presenting a collection of Zen poetry from both contemporary and traditional poets.

Author : Ko Un
Publisher : Parallax Press
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-22
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781888375657

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What? by Ko Un Pdf

Throughout his eventful life as a monk, poet, novelist, political dissident, husband, and father, Ko Un has remained a traveler on the Way. The poems in this collection, though strictly within the true Zen tradition, are as witty and down-to-earth as they are contemplative. Described by Allen Ginsberg as “thought-stopping Koan-like mental firecrackers,” the poems reflect both writer and reader. First published in 1997, the new edition features a more sympathetic translation and 11 original brush paintings by the author.

Author : Jerome P. Seaton,Dennis Maloney
Publisher : White Pine Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1877727377

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A Drifting Boat by Jerome P. Seaton,Dennis Maloney Pdf

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 : Anonim
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,6 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 : Lucien Stryk,Takashi Ikemoto
Publisher : Puffin
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1988-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0140585990

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The Penguin Book of Zen Poetry by Lucien Stryk,Takashi Ikemoto Pdf

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.

Author : Nhất Hạnh (Thích)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Vietnam War, 1961-1975
ISBN : IND:30000111220053

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Zen Poems by Nhất Hạnh (Thích) Pdf

Author : Shinkichi Takahashi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Japanese poetry
ISBN : UCSC:32106001624102

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After Images by Shinkichi Takahashi Pdf

Author : Ikkyu
Publisher : White Pine Press (NY)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1935210785

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Wild Ways by Ikkyu Pdf

One hundred poems by a revered Japanese Zen master.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2004-04-13
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781590301081

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Dewdrops on a Lotus Leaf by Anonim Pdf

The Japanese poet-recluse Ryokan (1758–1831) is one of the most beloved figures of Asian literature, renowned for his beautiful verse, exquisite calligraphy, and eccentric character. Deceptively simple, Ryokan's poems transcend artifice, presenting spontaneous expressions of pure Zen spirit. Like his contemporary Thoreau, Ryokan celebrates nature and the natural life, but his poems touch the whole range of human experience: joy and sadness, pleasure and pain, enlightenment and illusion, love and loneliness. This collection of translations reflects the full spectrum of Ryokan's spiritual and poetic vision, including Japanese haiku, longer folk songs, and Chinese-style verse. Fifteen ink paintings by Koshi no Sengai (1895–1958) complement these translations and beautifully depict the spirit of this famous poet.

Author : John Stevens
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006-04-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780834824966

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One Robe, One Bowl by John Stevens Pdf

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.