Poetic Leaps in Zen's Journey of Enlightenment
Title | Poetic Leaps in Zen's Journey of Enlightenment PDF eBook |
Author | Yong Zhi |
Publisher | iUniverse |
Total Pages | 221 |
Release | 2012-08 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1475942125 |
While the philosophical discussion of Zen spirituality reaches its limit, poetry offers an effective expression of the sublime experiences. From a poetic perspective, enlightenment is understood as poetic leaps in the spiritual journey, which brings people from the habitually or conventionally established world toward new horizons of consciousness. This leap is a breakthrough in the overall consciousness, rather than a progression in contemplative thought. Therefore, it cannot be adequately described through abstract representation, but poetry can metaphorically capture this leap and reveal both the spiritual meaning and the practical wisdom of enlightenment. This book will take you on this fantastic journey of enlightenment.
Poetic Leaps in Zen’S Journey of Enlightenment
Title | Poetic Leaps in Zen’S Journey of Enlightenment PDF eBook |
Author | Yong Zhi |
Publisher | iUniverse |
Total Pages | 220 |
Release | 2012-08-09 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9781475942149 |
While the philosophical discussion of Zen spirituality reaches its limit, poetry offers an effective expression of the sublime experiences. From a poetic perspective, enlightenment is understood as poetic leaps in the spiritual journey, which brings people from the habitually or conventionally established world toward new horizons of consciousness. This leap is a breakthrough in the overall consciousness, rather than a progression in contemplative thought. Therefore, it cannot be adequately described through abstract representation, but poetry can metaphorically capture this leap and reveal both the spiritual meaning and the practical wisdom of enlightenment. This book will take you on this fantastic journey of enlightenment.
Dissertation Abstracts International
Title | Dissertation Abstracts International PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 548 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Dissertations, Academic |
ISBN |
Abstracts of dissertations available on microfilm or as xerographic reproductions.
The Penguin Book of Zen Poetry
Title | The Penguin Book of Zen Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Lucien Stryk |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 166 |
Release | 1977 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN |
The collection spans 1,500 years - from the early T'ang dynasty to the present day - and offers Zen poetry in all its diversity: Chinese poems of enlightenment and death, poems of the Japanese masters, and many haiku, the quintessential Zen art. Japan's greatest contemporary Zen poet, Shinkichi Takahashi, is also well represented. The volume contains many poems never before rendered into English as well as numerious examples of Zen painting.
Zen Poems
Title | Zen Poems PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Harris |
Publisher | Everyman's Library |
Total Pages | 258 |
Release | 1999-03-23 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0375405526 |
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.
Zen, Poetry, the Art of Lucien Stryk
Title | Zen, Poetry, the Art of Lucien Stryk PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Porterfield |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 408 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN |
Lucien Stryk has been a presence in American letters for almost fifty years. Those who know his poetry well will find this collection particularly gratifying. Like journeying again to places visited long ago, Stryk's writing is both familiar and wonderfully fresh. For those just becoming acquainted with Stryk's work, Zen, Poetry, the Art of Lucien Stryk makes an excellent introduction. It includes his early essay, "The American Scene Versus the International Scene," written shortly after his service in the Pacific during World War II, and "Digging In," his first published poem, as well as some of his best-known pieces on Zen and Zen poetry. Among the latter are "Beginnings, Ends," "Poetry and Zen," "I Fear Nothing: A Note on the Zen Poetry of Death," and his introduction to the great haiku poets, Issa and Basho. Selections of his most recent work include "The Red Rug: An Introduction to Poetry," and an imagined conversation among all four leading haiku poets called "Meeting at Hagi-no-Tera." Porterfield's informative collection includes essays about Stryk's work as well as his own prose and poetry. As the volume makes clear, writing poetry is for Lucien Stryk a sacred act. It is both escape and communion, inseparable from life's daily activities.
Zen Poetry
Title | Zen Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Lucien Stryk |
Publisher | Grove/Atlantic, Inc. |
Total Pages | 194 |
Release | 2007-12-01 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0802198244 |
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.