Zen Poems of China and Japan: The Crane's Bill

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Zen Poems of China and Japan: The Crane's Bill
Authors and Contributors      Edited and translated by Lucien Stryk
Edited and translated by Takashi Ikemoto
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:208
Dimensions(mm): Height 210,Width 137
Category/GenrePoetry
Zen Buddhism
ISBN/Barcode 9780802130198
ClassificationsDewey:895.11008038
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Publication Date 18 January 1994
Publication Country United States

Description

Capturing in verse the ageless spirit of Zen, these 150 poems reflect the insight of famed masters from the ninth century to the nineteenth. The translators, in collaboration with Zen Master Taigan Takayama, have furnished illuminating commentary on the poems and arranged them so as to facilitate comparison between the Chinese and Japanese Zen traditions. The poems themselves, rendered in clear and powerful English, offer a unique approach to Zen Buddhism, "compared with which," as Lucien Stryk writes, "the many disquisitions on its meaning are as dust to living earth. We see in these poems, as in all important religious art, East or West, revelations of spiritual truths touched by a kind of divinity."