Ikkyu Sojun: Having Once Paused | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9780472052561 | Having Once Paused | Poems of Zen Master Ikkyu (1394-1481) | Buch

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The influence of Zen Master Ikkyū (1394-1481) permeates the full field of medieval Japanese aesthetics. Though best known as a poet, he was central to the shaping and reshaping of practices in calligraphy, Noh theater, tea ceremony, and rock gardening, all of which now define Japan's sense of its cultural tradition. Ikkyū is unique in Zen for letting his love of all appearance occupy him until it destroys any possibility for safety or seclusion. In his poetry, he turns the eye of enlightenment to all phenomena: politics, pine trees, hard meditation practice, sex, wine. A lifelong outsider to religious establishments, Ikkyū nonetheless accepted Imperial command to rebuild his home temple, Daitoku-ji, destroyed in the civil wars. He died before that project was complete. The poems in this collection express the unborn bliss of Ikkyū's realization and equally his devastation at the horrors of this world. They are peopled with ancient Chinese poets, cantankerous Japanese Zen Masters, contemporary warlords, and his lover Mori, a blind musician who lived with Ikkyū the last eleven years of his life. All of this is his Buddhism. His awakening outshines the small idols of reason, emotion, self, desire, doctrine, even of Buddhism itself.

Über den Autor

Sarah Messer taught as an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington for many years. Her books include Red House (Penguin, 2005) and Bandit Letters (New Issues Poetry & Prose, 2001).
Kidder Smith is Professor Emeritus of History and Asian Studies at Bowdoin College. He is senior author of Sung Dynasty Uses of the I Ching (Princeton, 1990) and, with the Denma Translation Group, of Sun Tzu: The Art of War (Shambhala, 2001). Visit the authors' website at [...].

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2015
Genre:	Gattungen & Methoden , Importe
Rubrik:	Literaturwissenschaft
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9780472052561
ISBN-10:	047205256X
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Sojun, Ikkyu Smith, Kidder Messer, Sarah
Hersteller:	The University of Michigan Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	228 x 151 x 12 mm
Von/Mit:	Ikkyu Sojun (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	02.06.2015
Gewicht:	0,233 kg