The 600 verses presented in this anthology will provide the reader with comprehensive and varied aspects of the sijo, the traditional Korean lyric, since its emergence as a fixed literary form as early as the late 12th century down to the 19th century.

Classical Korean Poetry: More Than 600 Verses Since the 12th Century

Literature & Fiction

Kim, Jaihiun J.

History & Criticism

Asian Humanities Pr

A companion volume to the Classical Korean Poetry, this anthology provides the reader a bird's eye view of modern, 20th century Korean poetry, thus completing the sampling of the Korean poetry beginning with the 12th century through the present.

Modern Korean Poetry

Kim, Jaihiun

Chanoyu, widely known as the tea ceremony, developed in Japan in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. In it, such ordinary acts of daily life as serving a meal and tea to guests have been raised to the status of religious discipline. 
 Wind in the Pines is a collection of writings that seek to illuminate the nature and aesthetics of chanoyu as a Buddhist path. Beginning with works on the art of linked verse (renga) that directly influenced the development of the way of tea, this book includes documents that are associated with the central figures in the formation of chanoyu in the spirit of wabi--the unsullied poverty of the hermit's thatched hut--and that have been treasured by practitioners down to the present.

Wind in the Pines: Classic Writings of the Way of Tea As a Buddhist Path

Religion & Spirituality

Buddhism

The Mad Monk: Paintings of Unlimited Action (Lancaster-Miller art series) Jung-Kwang.

The Mad Monk: Paintings of Unlimited Action

Jung-Kwang

Amazing Portraiture of Animals we know and love.

Vanishing Creatures, a Series of Portraits

Stermer, Dugald

Business & Money

The Inner Art: Korean Screens

McCune, Evelyn

Arts & Photography

This is a very interesting book with numerous drawings of typical and/or beautiful buildings and descriptions of buildings in the United States organized by geographical regions, The South, The East, New England, The Midwest, The West.

Images of American Architecture

Parker, Robert M., Jr.

Architecture

The Cycle of Day and Night

Politics & Social Sciences

Norbu, Namkhai

Sociology

Papers presented at a conference held June 1978 at Harvard University, sponsored by the Center for the Study of World Religions.

The Divine Consort: Radha and the Goddesses of India

Hinduism

Ch'an (Zen) Buddhism was popularized in the West by writers such as D.T. Suzuki and Alan Watts as a kind of romantic abstraction outside of history. The papers in this volume, originally presented as a unique conference sponsored by UC-Berkeley and the San Francisco Zen Center, go a long way towards revealing the complex historical development of Ch'an theory and practice both in China and Tibet. The papers on China reveal Ch'an not as a single line of transmission from Bodhidharma, but as a complex of contending and even hostile factions. Furthermore, the view that sees Ch'an as the sinicization of Buddhism through Taoism is questioned through an examination of the Taoism that was actually prevalent during the establishment of Ch'an in China. The papers on Tibet take us to the heart of the controversies surrounding the origins of Buddhism in that country, based on exciting research into the Tunhuang materials, the indigenous rDzogs-chen system, and the Sudden vs. Gradual Enlightenment controversy. Of particular note in this volume is the inclusion of several translations of papers by noted Japanese scholars who have led the way in this type of research, made available to the Western reader for the first time.

Early Ch'an in China and Tibet

History

Asia

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