The River of Heaven: The Haiku of Basho, Buson, Issa, and Shiki
Known to many as the study of quiet stillness and introspection, Zen Buddhism distinguishes itself through brilliant flashes of insight and its terseness of expression. In River of Heaven these concepts and pillars lend themselves to an exploration of Haiku, one of the most delicate and interpretive poetic forms in the world. The haiku verse form, with its rigid structure and organic description is a superb means of studying Zen modes of thought because its seventeen syllables impose a limitation that confines the poet to vital experience. In Haiku as in Buddhism, the silences are as expressive as the words. In this volume, American Senior Ze…
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- ISBN: 978-1-58243-710-1
- EAN: 9781582437101
- Produktnummer: 8233887
- Verlag: Counterpoint Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 199 S.
- Masse: H20.9 cm x B14.1 cm x D2.4 cm 241 g
- Gewicht: 241
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Robert Aitken is the author of more than a dozen books about Buddhism, including A Zen Wave, Encouraging Words, and Taking the Path of Zen. A dedicated Buddhist for most of his life, he is a former abbot and roshi of the Honolulu Diamond Sangha in Hawaii, which he co-founded with his late wife Anne Hopkins Aitken in 1959. He now lives in retirement at the Palolo Zen Center in Honolulu.
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