A user-friendly introduction to Zen Buddhism by an American Zen priest presiding over a temple in Japan. Sargent covers all the bases -- teachings, practice, the priesthood, temples & temple life, religious services, Zen etiquette, & general characteristics of Japanese Buddhism. The question-&-answer format makes the book highly accessible to the novice, yet Sargent goes into considerable detail when appropriate, providing an insider s look at Zen life & practice that will illuminate even the advanced Zen student. Illustrations.

Asking About Zen: 108 Answers

Religion & Spirituality

Jiho Sargent

Buddhism

Weatherhill

353 objects are described and illustrated in color. Includes brief biographies of 79 carvers.

Collectors' Netsuke

BUSHELL, Raymond

Dictionary of Japanese History

Joseph Goedertier

Reference

The World of the Japanese Garden: From Chinese Origins to Modern Landscape Art

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Kuck, Loraine E.

Gardening & Landscape Design

Third paperback printing edition, 1979, a very nice well-preserved trade softcover.

Japanese in Action: An Unorthodox Approach to the Spoken Language and the People Who Speak It

Seward, Jack

Everyday Japanese: A Basic English-Japanese Wordbook

Thorlin, Eldora S.

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Japan's New Buddhism: An Objective Account of Sokagakkai

Murata, Kiyoaki

Bamboo is brilliantly and elegantly explored in this book that combines an authoritative text, dealing with the cultural and aesthetic as well as the technical aspects of bamboo, with 162 pages of stunning photographs, including 32 in full color. In the West, bamboo is most often thought of as a rare, exotic plant, ornamental in nature. In the East, however, the rustling bamboo grove is a familiar sight and the uses the plant is put to are so countless that life there would be unthinkable without it.

Bamboo

Robert Austin

Ueda Koichiro

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

Zen mind is one of those enigmatic phrases used by Zen teachers to throw you back upon yourself, to make you go behind the words themselves and begin wondering. "I know what my own mind is," you tell yourself, "but what is Zen mind?" And then: "But do I really know what my own mind is?" Is it what I am doing now? Is it what I am thinking now?" And if you should then try to sit physically still for a while to see if you can locate it—then you have begun the practice of Zen, then you have begun to realize the unrestricted mind. The innocence of this first inquiry—just asking what you are—is beginner's mind. The mind of the beginner is needed throughout Zen practice. It is the open mind, the attitude that includes both doubt and possibility, the ability to see things always as fresh and new. It is needed in all aspects of life. Beginner's mind is the practice of Zen mind. This book originated from a series of talks given by Zen Master Shunryu Suzuki to a small group is Los Altos, California. He joined their meditation periods once a week and afterwards answered their questions and tried to encourage them in their practice of Zen and help them solve the problems of life. His approach is informal, and he draws his examples from ordinary events and common sense. Zen is now and here, he is saying; it can be as meaningful for the West as for the East. But his fundamental teaching and practice and drawn from all the centuries of Zen Buddhism and especially from Dogen, one of the most important and creative of all Zen Masters.

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks On Zen Meditation And Practice

SUZUKI, SHUNRYU

In this volume (9th reprint) Mr. Bushell speaks primarily to the experienced collector, to the connoisseur, presenting discoveries, insights, and opinions derving from some two decades of research and finding cogent answers to some of the questions that have perplexed the netsuke world.

Arts & Photography

Decorative Arts & Design

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