Zen Culture
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“Highly recommended”The Center for Asian StudiesAnyone who examines the Zen arts is immediately struck by how modern they seem. The ceramics of 16th-century Zen artists could be interchanged with the rugged pots of our own contemporary crafts movement; ancient calligraphies suggest the monochromes of Franz Kline or Willem de Kooning; the apparent nonsense and illogic of Zen parables (and No theater and Haiku poetry) established the limitations of language long before the theater of the absurd; 400-year-old Zen architecture seems to be a copy of modern design ideas such as modular space and a C...
Chapters (42)
- Nonfiction
- Fiction
- Permissions
- Acknowledgments
- Japanese Chronology
- Major Chinese Periods
- ZEN CULTURE
- Foreword
- Part I
- THE BEGINNINGS: PREHISTORY TO 1333
- Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. Matthew 6:28
- The Chronicles of Zen
- Zen Archery and Swordsmanship
- CHAPTER SIX The Great Age of Zen
- The Zen Aesthetics of Japanese Architecture
- CHAPTER ELEVEN
- Hi-to-ri ko-ge na-mu
- References
- Chapter 5 Zen Archery and Swordsmanship
- Chapter 6 The Great Age of Zen
- Chapter 7 Zen and the Landscape Garden
- Chapter 9 Zen and the Ink Landscape
- Chapter 11 The No Theater
- Chapter 1 2 Bourgeois Society and Later Zen
- Chapter 13 The Tea Ceremony
- Chapter 14 Zen Ceramic Art
- Chapter 16 Private Zen: Flowers and Food
- Chapter 17 The Lessons of Zen Culture
- Bibliography
- General History
- General Arts and Culture
- Buddhism and Japanese Buddhism
- Architecture
- Gardens
- Ceramics
- Tea Ceremony
- Zen Archery and Swordsmanship
- Flowers and Food
- Zen and the Ink Landscape
- Zen and Haiku
- Glossary
- Fiction
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