Dancing the Dharma
Title | Dancing the Dharma PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Blakely Klein |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 420 |
Release | 2022-03-07 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1684176239 |
Dancing the Dharma examines the theory and practice of allegory by exploring a select group of medieval Japanese noh plays and treatises. Susan Blakeley Klein demonstrates how medieval esoteric commentaries on the tenth-century poem-tale Ise monogatari (Tales of Ise) and the first imperial waka poetry anthology Kokin wakashū influenced the plots, characters, imagery, and rhetorical structure of seven plays (Maiguruma, Kuzu no hakama, Unrin’in, Oshio, Kakitsubata, Ominameshi, and Haku Rakuten) and two treatises (Zeami’s Rikugi and Zenchiku’s Meishukushū). In so doing, she shows that it was precisely the allegorical mode—vital to medieval Japanese culture as a whole—that enabled the complex layering of character and poetic landscape we typically associate with noh. Klein argues that understanding noh’s allegorical structure and paying attention to the localized historical context for individual plays are key to recovering their original function as political and religious allegories. Now viewed in the context of contemporaneous beliefs and practices of the medieval period, noh plays take on a greater range and depth of meaning and offer new insights to readers today into medieval Japan.
Dancing with Dharma
Title | Dancing with Dharma PDF eBook |
Author | Harrison Blum |
Publisher | McFarland |
Total Pages | 283 |
Release | 2016-02-25 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1476623503 |
Both Buddhism and dance invite the practitioner into present-moment embodiment. The rise of Western Buddhism, sacred dance and dance/movement therapy, along with the mindfulness meditation boom, has created opportunities for Buddhism to inform dance aesthetics and for Buddhist practice to be shaped by dance. This collection of new essays documents the innovative work being done at the intersection of Buddhism and dance. The contributors--scholars, choreographers and Buddhist masters--discuss movement, performance, ritual and theory, among other topics. The final section provides a variety of guided practices.
Dancing the Dharma
Title | Dancing the Dharma PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Blakeley Klein |
Publisher | Harvard East Asian Monographs |
Total Pages | 400 |
Release | 2020-10-13 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780674247840 |
Dancing the Dharma examines the theory and practice of allegory by exploring a select group of medieval Japanese noh plays and treatises. Understanding noh's allegorical structure and paying attention to the localized historical context for individual plays are key to recovering their original function as political and religious allegories.
Dancing With Life
Title | Dancing With Life PDF eBook |
Author | Phillip Moffitt |
Publisher | Rodale |
Total Pages | 371 |
Release | 2012-03-27 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1605298247 |
Counsels readers on the twelve insights that underlie the Buddha's core teachings, addressing such topics as mindfulness, suffering, the Buddha's Four Noble Truths, and the search for inner peace.
Dancing with Dharma
Title | Dancing with Dharma PDF eBook |
Author | Harrison Blum |
Publisher | McFarland |
Total Pages | 283 |
Release | 2016-02-26 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0786498099 |
Both Buddhism and dance invite the practitioner into present-moment embodiment. The rise of Western Buddhism, sacred dance and dance/movement therapy, along with the mindfulness meditation boom, has created opportunities for Buddhism to inform dance aesthetics and for Buddhist practice to be shaped by dance. This collection of new essays documents the innovative work being done at the intersection of Buddhism and dance. The contributors--scholars, choreographers and Buddhist masters--discuss movement, performance, ritual and theory, among other topics. The final section provides a variety of guided practices.
Emptiness Dancing
Title | Emptiness Dancing PDF eBook |
Author | Adyashanti |
Publisher | Sounds True |
Total Pages | 253 |
Release | 2006-05-01 |
Genre | Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | 1591798760 |
There is something about you brighter than the sun and more mysterious than the night sky. Who are you when you are not thinking yourself into existence? What is ultimately behind the set of eyes reading these words? In Emptiness Dancing, Adyashanti invites you to wake up to the essence of what you are, through the natural and spontaneous opening of the mind, heart, and body that holds the secret to happiness and liberation. From the first stages of realization to its evolutionary implications, Adyashanti shares a treasure trove of insights into the challenges of the inner life, offering lucid, down-to-earth advice on topics ranging from the ego, illusion, and spiritual addiction to compassion, letting go, the eternal now, and more. Whether you read each chapter in succession or begin on any page you feel inspired to turn to, you will find in Adyashanti's wisdom an understanding and ever-ready guide to the full wonder of your infinite self-nature.
Dancing in the Dharma
Title | Dancing in the Dharma PDF eBook |
Author | Sandy Boucher |
Publisher | Beacon Press |
Total Pages | 272 |
Release | 2006-06-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780807073193 |
Ruth Denison was one of the great innovators in the early years of Buddhism in the West. In this portrait of her extraordinary life, from a youth in Nazi-dominated Germany to the center of the counterculture in the sixties and seventies, Boucher captures Denison's distinctive voice and the journey of her remarkable spirit.