A overview of Buddhism from its beginning to its more modern philosophies, a thorough but accessible first reader in Buddhist texts, providing necessary notes and background.

World of the Buddha: A Reader,

Stryk, Lucien

DOUBLEDAY COMPANY

Cover title: Zen poems of China and Japan.

The Crane's Bill: Zen Poems of China and Japan (Chinese and English Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Ikemoto, Takashi

Takayama

History & Criticism

Distributed by Random House

This is a selection from among the most significant texts in the body of Buddhist literature, culled especially for readers who want a rich, varied, and comprehensive collection in one volume, and includes translations from Pali, Sanskrit, Tibetan, Chinese, Japanese, and Lao. For the benefit of the newcomer to Buddhism — and to facilitate the use of this volume in an academic context — the pieces are arranged in chronological order and each chapter is preceded by a separate commentary. In addition, there is a comprehensive description of life in India at the time of the Buddha and an outline of his life and mission.

World of the Buddha: An introduction to Buddhist literature (Grove Press Eastern philosophy and literature series)

Religion & Spirituality

Random House USA Inc

Zen Poems Prayers: Sermons, Anecdotes, Interviews

Buddhism

SWALLOW PRESS+

Of the growing number of books on Zen in recent years, this collections of poems, anecdotes, sermons, and prayers is a noteworthy contribution to our understanding of this elusive and fascinating subject. Recommended for the layman and specialist.

Zen, Poems, Prayers, Sermons, Anecdotes, Interviews

Poetry

Encounter With Zen: Writings on Poetry and Zen

Swallow Pr

Ohio Univ Pr

Lucien Stryk’s poetry is made of simple things — frost on a windowpane at morning, ducks moving across a pond, a neighbor’s fuss over his lawn — set into language that is at once direct and powerful.Years of translating Zen poems and religious texts have helped give Stryk a special sense of the particular, a feel for those details which, because they are so much a part of our lives, seem to define us. Stryk’s poetry is neither an attempt to surpass these details nor an attempt to give them significance. It is an activity that exists among them, as ordinary — yet as important — as breath. Stryk’s poetic power rests in the sureness of plain speech and his insistence on a direct, sympathetic attention to the world we actually inhabit.Collected Poems, a gathering of three decades of work, contains nearly all Stryk’s poems, including the best of his Zen translations and a book–length section of new poetry. This book is a revelation of the wonderful amid the familiar by a poet whose language and vision have found their maturity.

Collected poems, 1953-1983

Lucien Stryk’s poetry is made of simple things — frost on a windowpane at morning, ducks moving across a pond, a neighbor’s fuss over his lawn — set into language that is at once direct and powerful. Years of translating Zen poems and religious texts have helped give Stryk a special sense of the particular, a feel for those details which, because they are so much a part of our lives, seem to define us. Stryk’s poetry is neither an attempt to surpass these details nor an attempt to give them significance. It is an activity that exists among them, as ordinary — yet as important — as breath. Stryk’s poetic power rests in the sureness of plain speech and his insistence on a direct, sympathetic attention to the world we actually inhabit. Collected Poems, a gathering of three decades of work, contains nearly all Stryk’s poems, including the best of his Zen translations and a book–length section of new poetry. This book is a revelation of the wonderful amid the familiar by a poet whose language and vision have found their maturity.

Collected Poems 1953-1983

Of Pen & Ink & Paper Scraps

The first of this new collection’s three parts ranges very widely, from poems of childhood-his own, his children’s, and his grandchild’s-to poems of keen social and political awareness, and on to pieces about his neighbors, about growing more firmly and deeply into a personal place. The collection’s second part, devoted completely to the poet’s favorite of all the great haiku poets of Japan, Issa, “Issa: A Suite of Haiku,” is made up of 72 freshly translated pieces by one of haiku’s “great four” (the others being Basho, Buson, and Shiki -- all of whom Lucien Stryk has translated). The collection’s third part begins with some poems about painting and sculpture, then begins to “travel” to Italy, England, and Sweden. This volume of poetry is yet another demonstration of what Library Journal declared upon publication of Stryk’s Collected Poems: 1953-1983: “This collection affirms Stryk as one of our best poets working in America today.”

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World of the Buddha: A Reader,

The Crane's Bill: Zen Poems of China and Japan (Chinese and English Edition)

World of the Buddha: An introduction to Buddhist literature (Grove Press Eastern philosophy and literature series)

Zen Poems Prayers: Sermons, Anecdotes, Interviews

Zen, Poems, Prayers, Sermons, Anecdotes, Interviews

Encounter With Zen: Writings on Poetry and Zen

Encounter With Zen: Writings on Poetry and Zen

Collected poems, 1953-1983

Collected Poems 1953-1983

Of Pen & Ink & Paper Scraps