Zen poems of China & Japan : the Crane's bill / translated by Lucien Stryk and Takashi Ikemoto with the assistance of Taigan Takayama.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stryk, Lucien.

Ikemoto, Takashi, 1906-1980.

Takayama, Taigan.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Evergreen book

An Evergreen book

Language:

Chinese

English

Japanese

Subjects (All):

Zen poetry, Chinese--Translations into English.

Zen poetry, Chinese.

Zen poetry, Japanese--Translations into English.

Zen poetry, Japanese.

Genre:

Translations.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

li, 143 pages ; 21 cm.

Edition:

First Evergreen edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Grove Press, 1987.

Summary:

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 so 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."

Contents:

China: Enlightenment ; Death ; General

Japan: Enlightenment ; Death ; General.

ISBN:

0802130194

9780802130198

OCLC:

15365044