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One Robe, One Bowl

The Zen Poetry of Ryokan

By John Stevens
By Ryokan

$19.95
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9780834805705
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Please also visit our Reader's Guide to Buddhist Poetry.

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Weatherhill
04/11/2006
Pages: 88
Size: 5.25 x 8.25
ISBN: 9780834805705
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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 extraordinary poems, capturing in a few luminous phrases both the beauty and the pathos of human life, reach far beyond time and place to touch the springs of humanity.

Extras

Please also visit our Reader's Guide to Buddhist Poetry.

Japanese Zen
Buddhist Poetry
Nature & Environment
Author Bio
John Stevens
JOHN STEVENS (1947–2025) was a Zen priest as well as a professor of Buddhist Studies and Aikido instructor at Tohoku Fukushi University in Sendai, Japan, where he lived for thirty-five years. He is the author or translator of over forty books on Zen artists and their poetry, painting, and calligraphy, as well as on Aikido, swordsmanship, and other Japanese martial arts traditions.
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