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      Zen Poems of China and Japan: The Crane's Bill

      by Lucien Stryk
      Published
      Jan 1973
      Main Genre
      Mystery Mystery
      Pages
      143
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      Capturing in verse the ageless spirit of Zen, these 150 poems reflect the insight of famed masters from the ninth century to the nineteenth. The translators, in collaboration with Zen Master Taigan Takayama, have furnished illuminating commentary on the poems and arranged them as to facilitate comparison between the Chinese and Japanese Zen traditions. The poems themselves, rendered in clear and powerful English, offer a unique approach to Zen Buddhism, "compared with which,' as Lucien Stryk writes, "the many disquisitions on its meaning are as dust to living earth. We see in these poems, as in all important religious art, East or West, revelations of spiritual truths touched by a kind of divinity."

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      General Fiction Suspense

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      Mystery

      Characters & Occupations

      Sheikhs

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      First Edition Jan 1973 Anchor ISBN13 9780385046244 ISBN10 0385046243
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      Dec 2007 Grove Press ISBN10 B005012GNS
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