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)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/81112

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