This and That: Selected Short Poems of Zen Master Ryokan - Paperback
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This and That: Selected Short Poems of Zen Master Ryokan
Zen poems of everyday awakening.
A fresh translation of short poems by the Japanese Zen poet Ryokan that reads well as modern American poetry, accompanied by an introduction and commentaries on the poems from the translators. Most of the existing translations are stiff, or sentimental, or awkward as poems in English. This effort is comparable to Gary Snyder's Han-Shan poems, or Thomas Merton's...
Ryōkan (1758-1831) was a Japanese Sōtō Zen Buddhist monk who lived as a hermit. Even by those standards, he was known for unconventionality, shocking others, for example, by refusing to hurt bugs, and confronting burglars to willingly give them his clothes. But most of all Ryōkan is remembered for his poetry, which presents the essence of Zen life.
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