Book Description
The author chronicles his quest for spiritual roots, describes his early Zen experiences and his gradual reawakening to life through Zen.
Author : Peter Matthiessen
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 47,41 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780394552514
The author chronicles his quest for spiritual roots, describes his early Zen experiences and his gradual reawakening to life through Zen.
Author : Peter Matthiessen
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,62 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Zen Buddhists
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Author : Peter Matthiessen
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 24,77 MB
Release : 1998-04-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0834828790
In August 1968, naturalist-explorer Peter Matthiessen returned from Africa to his home in Sagaponack, Long Island, to find three Zen masters in his driveway—guests of his wife, a new student of Zen. Thirteen years later, Matthiessen was ordained a Buddhist monk. Written in the same format as his best-selling The Snow Leopard, Nine-Headed Dragon River reveals Matthiessen's most daring adventure of all: the quest for his spiritual roots.
Author : Dale Stuart Wright
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 15,3 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0190622598
Dale Wright offers a wide-ranging exploration of issues that have a bearing on the contemporary meaning of enlightenment. He considers the historical meanings of enlightenment within various Buddhist traditions, but does so in order to expand on the larger question that our lives press upon us--what kinds of lives should we aspire to live here, now, and into the future?
Author : John D. Barbour
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 24,48 MB
Release : 2022-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1009098837
Compelling exploration of how journeys to a Buddhist culture changed 30 Western writers as they explored the meaning of 'no-self'.
Author : John Gatta
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 18,6 MB
Release : 2004-10-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780195165050
This book argues that the religious import of American environmental literature has yet to be fully recognized or understood. Making Nature Sacred explores how the quest for 'natural revelation' has been pursued through successive phases of American literary and intellectual history.
Author : Peter Matthiessen
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,37 MB
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1582436304
The journey of Buddhism over centuries, from India to China and then to Japan, is the stuff of mythology. But now, in our own time, we have witnessed and documented its historic crossing of the Pacific and its subsequent evolution in the Americas and Europe. In 1982, writer Peter Muryo Matthiessen, the first dharma successor of Roshi Bernie Glassman, traveled with Glassman to pay respects to the teachers in their lineage, some of the great living Zen masters of twentieth–century Japan. What took place was an important meeting of minds representing the past, present, and future of Zen practice, an intimate connection between ancestors and descendants marking a critical point in the Zen journey from the East to the West. This historic event was captured in the moment by the selective lens of Peter Cunningham. Matthiessen's exquisite poetic accounts of this pilgrimage, which formed a part of his book Nine–Headed Dragon River, accompany the photos.
Author : Harry Oldmeadow
Publisher : World Wisdom, Inc
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 35,49 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0941532577
This is the first book to treat the impact of religious, philosophical and psychological traditions of the East on Western intellectuals, artists, travellers and spiritual seekers in the twentieth century. Addressed to both general readers and scholars of religion, it is especially valuable for its penetrating and inter-religious analysis of two of the most compelling themes now facing the world: the emergence of cross-cultural religious understanding of the natural order and ecological crisis and the metaphysical basis for both the formal diversity and essential unity of religious traditions of both East and West. The West has long romanticized the "mysterious" East, but it has, also, judged its traditions as "uncivilized." Our notions about Eastern spirituality have been formed by a succession of travellers, scientists, artists, intellectuals, poets, philosophers and missionaries, as well as by Eastern travellers who have spent time in the West. This book helps us to recognize the influence of Eastern ideas upon modern Western thought by tracing the history of engagements between East and West up until the present day. It concludes with a section that helps us to perceive the timeless value of the many Eastern contributions to the West's current intellectual and spiritual state.
Author : Intaek Oh
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 13,67 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Ecology in literature
ISBN : 9781433109911
Peter Matthiessen and Ecological Imagination offers an ecocritical reading of the Watson Trilogy - Killing Mister Watson (1990), Lost Man's River (1997), and Bone By Bone (1999) - which draws together themes Matthiessen has been exploring both in his fiction and nonfiction. While this study argues that his ecological imagination comes from his unique experience as a novelist, naturalist, environmentalist, social activist, and a student of Zen, it also illustrates that for Matthiessen, economic, political, social, racial, psychological, epistemological, and ecological issues are all inseparably interconnected. Set in the Everglades frontier in the formative era of American industrial capitalism, Matthiessen's novels are his grand attempt to reexamine the root causes of ecological disaster in the region and the costs to the people and the land that accompanied the conquering of the frontier.
Author : Steven Heine
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 28,15 MB
Release : 2010-04-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0199710082
Extending their successful series of collections on Zen Buddhism, Heine and Wright present a fifth volume, on what may be the most important topic of all - Zen Masters. Following two volumes on Zen literature (Zen Classics and The Zen Canon) and two volumes on Zen practice (The Koan and Zen Ritual) they now propose a volume on the most significant product of the Zen tradition - the Zen masters who have made this kind of Buddhism the most renowned in the world by emphasizing the role of eminent spiritual leaders and their function in establishing centers, forging lineages, and creating literature and art. Zen masters in China, and later in Korea and Japan, were among the cultural leaders of their times. Stories about their comportment and powers circulated widely throughout East Asia. In this volume ten leading Zen scholars focus on the image of the Zen master as it has been projected over the last millennium by the classic literature of this tradition. Each chapter looks at a single prominent master. Authors assess the master's personality and charisma, his reported behavior and comportment, his relationships with teachers, rivals and disciplines, lines of transmission, primary teachings, the practices he emphasized, sayings and catch-phrases associated with him, his historical and social context, representations and icons, and enduring influences.