[PDF.23cb] One Robe, One Bowl: The Zen Poetry of Ryokan

One Robe, One Bowl: The Zen Poetry of Ryokan

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 | #125351 in Books |  Stevens, John/ Ryokan |  2006-04-11 |  2006-04-11 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.20 x.20 x5.20l,.25 | File type: PDF | 96 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Relive a moment centuries ago|By Patto|I'm embarrassed to confess I don't like most poetry. But in an oft-quoted line, Ryokan tells us, "My poems are not poems." Perhaps that's why I'm entranced by the verses of this hermit-poet who lived in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Translator John Stevens assures us in his charming introduction that he has|About the Author|John Stevens is Professor of Buddhist Studies and Aikido instructor at Tohoku Fukushi University in Sendai, Japan. He is the author or translator of over twenty books on Buddhism, Zen, Aikido, and Asian culture. He has practiced and taug

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 extraordi...

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