Zen Culture (Arkana)

Religion & Spirituality

Hoover, Thomas

Buddhism

Arkana

More than 100 years before the American Revolution a fight for freedom from England was waged in the West Indies. Hoover's carefully researched historical novel, the tale of gentleman-turned-buccaneer Hugh Winston and independent Barbados colonist Kay Bedford, is an easy-to-read, exciting history of the Caribbean. Africans enslaved to work the sugar cane fields, drugged with the cane waste product ``rum'' to keep them subdued; Irish and English indentured servants, virtually slaves themselves; settlers struggling with the elements and European politics; and the misfit ruffians called ``boucaniers'' all are brought vividly to life in the story of the first American revolution.

Caribbee

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

The Bodley Head, Ltd.

Brian Hawksworth, a daring English sea captain and sophisticated Elizabethan adventurer, leads the first East India Company expedition into the heart of seventeenth-century Moghul India

The Moghul

United States

DOUBLEDAY

Based on true people and events, this epic centers around the colorful characters and islands of the exotic seventeenth-century Caribbean

Zen History, Zen, Haiku, Ceramics, Archery, Landscape Garden, Stone Garden, Ink Landscape Scroll, Zen Architecture, Sword, Katana, No Theater, Noh Theater, Japanese Tea Ceremony, Flower arranging, Ikebana, Zen Ceramic Art, Raku, Shino, Ryoanji-ji âHighly recommendedâThe Center for Asian StudiesâA connoisseurâNYC-FMâHoover provides an excellent introduction to the aesthetics of Japanese cultureâKirkus Reviews

Zen Culture

Random House]

Examines the development of Zen culture in Japan, its continuing permeation of Japanese life, its manifestations in the various arts, its rituals and goals, and its present-day appeal to Westerners

Random House, Inc.

xx 262p yellow paperback, many illustrations in the text, fresh and clean, fresh clean firm copy

Zen Culture.

London: Routledge 1988

(New American Library,1980) "The best history of Zen ever written." Library Journal Beginning with Indian Buddhism and Chinese Taoism it shows Zen as it was created by the personalities, perceptions, and actions of its masters over the centuries. Gradual and sudden enlightenment, shock enlightenment, the koan, the migration of Zen to Japan. With anecdote and memorable quotation, this long-needed work restores Zen to its living, human form.

The Zen Experience

Plume

Excerpt: ... meeting your kinsman slay your kinsman, and you attain emancipation. By not cleaving to things, you freely pass through.5 After his enlightenment, he had many exchanges with Huang-po in which he came off ahead as often as not. It is also interesting that many of the interactions involved the manual labor of the monastery, an indication of the significance of work in Ch'an life. One famous joust between Lin-chi and Huang-po went as follows: One day Master Lin-chi went with Huang-po to do some work in which all the monks participated. Lin-chi followed his master who, turning his head, noticed that Lin-chi was carrying nothing in his hand. "Where is your hoe?" "Somebody took it away." "Come here: let us discuss something," commanded Huang-po and as Lin-chi drew nearer, he thrust his hoe into the ground and continued, "There is no one in the world who can pick up my hoe." However, Lin-chi seized the tool, lifted it up, and exclaimed, "How then could it be in my hands?" "Today we have another hand with us; it is not necessary for me to join in." And Huang-po returned to the temple.6         This story can be interpreted many ways. John Wu says, "Obviously he was using the hoe as a pointer to the great function of teaching and transmitting the lamp of Ch'an. . . . This was a symbolic way of saying that in a mysterious manner the charge was now in his hands."7 However, as Freud once remarked concerning the celebrated phallic symbolism of his stogie, "Sometimes, madam, it's just a cigar," and one suspects that in this little slapstick episode, the hoe might possibly be just a hoe. Another exchange between Huang-po and Lin-chi may have more dialectical significance. According to the story: One day Huang-po ordered all the monks of the temple to work in the tea garden. He himself was the last to arrive. Lin-chi greeted him, but stood there with his hands resting on the hoe....

(Bantam 1988)A financial thriller right out of the headlines. Adam SmithA high-finance, high-tech thriller of Wall Street, murder, currency manipulation. A mysterious Japanese industrialist begins a massive 'hedging' in the US markets. Two weeks later, in Japans Inland Sea, divers working for him recover the Imperial Sword, given to Japan's first Emperor by the Sun Goddess. Can a lone American lawyer stop him from bringing down the US?

Samurai Strategy

Bantam]

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Zen Culture (Arkana)

Caribbee

The Moghul

Caribbee

Zen Culture

Zen Culture

Zen Culture.

The Zen Experience

The Zen Experience

Samurai Strategy