Zen and Material Culture Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• File Size : 44,7 Mb
• Release Date : 29 May 2024

Expanding on previous studies of Zen art history, material/visual culture, and religious practice, Zen and Material Culture focuses on the vast range of ""stuff"" in Japanese Zen, including beads,

• Publisher : Thomas Hoover
• File Size : 29,7 Mb
• Release Date : 20 August 2010

Random House 1977Zen History,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

• Publisher : Princeton University Press
• File Size : 54,8 Mb
• Release Date : 12 February 2019

Zen and Japanese Culture is a classic that has influenced generations of readers and played a major role in shaping conceptions of Zen’s influence on Japanese traditional arts. In

• Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
• File Size : 35,8 Mb
• Release Date : 31 May 2022

Kōshiki (Buddhist ceremonials) belong to a shared ritual repertoire of Japanese Buddhism that began with Tendai Pure Land belief in the late tenth century and spread to all Buddhist

• Publisher : Princeton University Press
• File Size : 46,8 Mb
• Release Date : 06 April 2003

Buddhism had a profound effect not only on Chinese philosophy and ritual, but also on the material culture of China. Examining the impact of books, bridges, sugar, tea and the

• Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
• File Size : 49,9 Mb
• Release Date : 28 February 2003

Zen Sand is a classic collection of verses aimed at aiding practitioners of kôan meditation to negotiate the difficult relationship between insight and language. As such it represents a

• Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
• File Size : 38,8 Mb
• Release Date : 29 July 2009

This study is the first in the English language to explore the ways medieval Japanese sought to overcome their sense of powerlessness over death. By attending to both religious practice

• Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
• File Size : 24,7 Mb
• Release Date : 31 December 2005

Widely perceived as an overwhelmingly Catholic nation, Brazil has experienced in recent years a growth in the popularity of Buddhism among the urban, cosmopolitan upper classes. In the 1990s Buddhism

• Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
• File Size : 43,6 Mb
• Release Date : 30 September 2011

Healing lies at the heart of Zen in the home, as Paula Arai discovered in her pioneering research on the ritual lives of Zen Buddhist laywomen. She reveals a vital

• Publisher : Princeton University Press
• File Size : 37,7 Mb
• Release Date : 16 June 2020

From the first century, when Buddhism entered China, the foreign religion shaped Chinese philosophy, beliefs, and ritual. At the same time, Buddhism had a profound effect on the material world