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Zen Inklings: Some Stories, Fables, Parables, Sermons, and Prints, with Notes and Commentaries
- Title
- en_US Zen Inklings: Some Stories, Fables, Parables, Sermons, and Prints, with Notes and Commentaries
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)
- en_US First edition
- en_US Donald Richie
- Creator
- en_US Richie, Donald See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Richie, Donald
- Date
- 2016-01-25T19:38:56Z
- en_US 1997-12
- en_US 1982
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T19:38:56Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1982
- Abstract
- en_US These are provocative stories to awaken insight, I would say. The first is about a monk who achieved satori when he finally gave way completely to doubt and had sex with a prostitute. The Need for Begging (15-17) tells the story of some novices who were embarrassed at the prospect of begging. Their master, after various attempts to persuade them, gave them a particular help to embrace begging: he told the kitchen to stop preparing food for them! The Bones of Buddha (23-24) tells of a wise priest who visited another temple during a very cold spell. After waiting for the priest for hours, he took an axe to the wooden Buddha, and began feeding the broken off wood into the flames to warm himself and the temple. Wise men called his action praiseworthy. The Koan (25-27) describes the successful experience of enduring a koan. Enlightenment seems to come with understanding that the meaning of the koan is not in the koan. I do not think that there are Aesopic fables here. The full-page woodblocks are, as the flyleaf says, their own visual koans.
- Identifier
- en_US 834801701
- en_US 5579 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US Weatherhill
- en_US Tokho
- Subject
- en_US BQ9265.4.R53 1982 See all items with this value
- en_US Tangential See all items with this value
- en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value
- Type
- en_US Book, Whole
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books