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| #1489447 in Books | Counterpoint | 2003-10-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.06 x.56 x5.54l,.54 | File type: PDF | 192 pages | ||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| A different perspective|By Jillian R|I have been reading Japanese poetry in translation. I have particularly valued this book. It examines various haiku of Basho through a Zen perspective. Robert Aitken gives first his own translation then the literal translation of the haiku alongside the Romanized Japanese version. He not only discusses the haiku showing its Zen features, he||"Zen masters have a long history of giving teisho--formal, playful Dharma talks--in which poetry is invoked. The works of the Chinese poets Su Shih and Han Shan are almost within the Zen canon. In the tradition of teisho on Han Shan given by earlier masters, R
Zen Buddhism distinguishes itself by brilliant flashes of insight and its terseness of expression. The haiku verse form is a superb means of studying Zen modes of thought and expression, for its seventeen syllables impose a rigorous limitation that confines the poet to vital experience. Here haiku by Bashõ are translated by Robert Aitken, with commentary that provides a new and far deeper understanding of Bashõ’s work than ever before.
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