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Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-05-19 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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Compiled by a leading scholar of Chinese poetry, Clouds Thick, Whereabouts Unknown is the first collection of Chan (Zen) poems to be situated within Chan though
Wisdom Within Words
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Pages: 281
Authors: Steven Heine
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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"This book is the first complete bilingual edition and annotated translation of the poetry collection entitled Mystery Within Words (Kuchūgen), which features
Zen and Material Culture
Language: en
Pages: 353
Authors: Pamela D. Winfield
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-06-07 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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The stereotype of Zen Buddhism as a minimalistic or even immaterial meditative tradition persists in the Euro-American cultural imagination. This volume calls a
Monsters, Animals, and Other Worlds
Language: en
Pages: 328
Authors: Keller Kimbrough
Categories: Literary Collections
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-02-20 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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Monsters, Animals, and Other Worlds is a collection of twenty-five medieval Japanese tales of border crossings and the fantastic, featuring demons, samurai, tal
Record of Miraculous Events in Japan
Language: en
Pages: 225
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Categories: Literary Collections
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-07-23 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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The Nihon ryoiki, a collection of setsuwa, or "anecdotal" tales, compiled by a monk in late-eighth- or early-ninth-century Japan, records the spread of Buddhist