Zen Inklings
Author: Donald Richie
Publisher: Weatherhill, Incorporated
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 168
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Author: Donald Richie
Publisher: Weatherhill, Incorporated
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is an introduction to Zen, its inner spirit and application to daily living.
Author: Donald Richie
Publisher: Weatherhill, Incorporated
Published: 1992-03-01
Total Pages: 117
ISBN-13: 9780834802308
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Donald Richie
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 115
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Satish Gupta
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Published: 2020
Total Pages: 133
ISBN-13: 9789387509221
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Library of Congress
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 1704
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gregory P. A. Levine
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2017-09-30
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 0824858085
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLong Strange Journey presents the first critical analysis of visual objects and discourses that animate Zen art modernism and its legacies, with particular emphasis on the postwar “Zen boom.” Since the late nineteenth century, Zen and Zen art have emerged as globally familiar terms associated with a spectrum of practices, beliefs, works of visual art, aesthetic concepts, commercial products, and modes of self-fashioning. They have also been at the center of fiery public disputes that have erupted along national, denominational, racial-ethnic, class, and intellectual lines. Neither stable nor strictly a matter of euphoric religious or intercultural exchange, Zen and Zen art are best approached as productive predicaments in the study of religion, spirituality, art, and consumer culture, especially within the frame of Buddhist modernism. Long Strange Journey’s modern-contemporary emphasis sets it off from most writing on Zen art, which focuses on masterworks by premodern Chinese and Japanese artists, gushes over “timeless” visual qualities as indicative of metaphysical states, or promotes with ahistorical, trend-spotting flair Zen art’s design appeal and therapeutic values. In contrast, the present work plots a methodological through line distinguished by “discourse analysis,” moving from the first contacts between Europe and Japanese Zen in the sixteenth century to late nineteenth–early twentieth-century transnational exchanges driven by Japanese Buddhists and intellectuals and the formation of a Zen art canon; to postwar Zen transformations of practice and avant-garde expressions; to popular embodiments of our “Zenny zeitgeist,” such as Zen cartoons. The book presents an alternative history of modern-contemporary Zen and Zen art that emphasizes their unruly and polythetic-prototypical natures, taking into consideration serious religious practice and spiritual and creative discovery as well as conflicts over Zen’s value amid the convolutions of global modernity, squabbles over authenticity, resistance against the notion of “Zen influence,” and competing claims to speak for Zen art made by monastics, lay advocates, artists, and others.
Author: Library of Congress. Subject Cataloging Division
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 1534
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Published: 2007
Total Pages: 1512
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Evgeny Steiner
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2014-06-26
Total Pages: 475
ISBN-13: 1443862878
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines Japanese culture of the Muromachi epoch (14–16 centuries) with Ikkyū Sōjun (1394–1481) as its focal point. Ikkyū’s contribution to the culture of his time was all-embracing and unique. He can be called the embodiment of his era, given that all the features typical for the Japanese culture of the High Middle Ages were concentrated in his personality. This multidisciplinary study of Ikkyū’s artistic, religious, and philosophical heritage reconstructs his creative mentality and his way of life. The aesthetics and art of Ikkyū are shown against a broad historical background. Much emphasis is given to Ikkyū’s interpretation of Zen. The book discusses in great detail Ikkyū’s religious and ethical principles, as well as his attitude towards sex, and shows that his rebellious and iconoclastic ways were deeply embedded in the tradition. The book pulls together materials from cultural and religious history with literary and visual artistic texts, and offers a multifaceted view on Ikkyū, as well as on the cultural life of the Muromachi period. This approach ensures that the book will be interesting for art historians, historians of literature and religion, and specialists in cultural and visual studies.
Author: Donald Richie
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Published: 2011-12-20
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 1462902170
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Nobody has thought as widely and as concretely (therefore, as helpfully) as Richie has about how a single distinctive culture gathers up contradictions, coheres, works, resists change, and changes.--Susan Sontag"