Zen Masters of Meditation in Images and Writings
Helmut Brinker, Hiroshi Kanazawa
The old "Masters of Meditation," Zenji, liked to talk to their followers and disciples in similes and metaphors. They confronted and provoked them with seemingly obvious images drawn from daily life and with enigmatic teachings. In the "ink traces," bokuseki, of their brush and in the portraits, chinzo, the characters and substance of the masters are revealed most poignantly, and both served the Zen adherents to absorb word and spirit of their religious paragons, enabling them to transmit their teachings faithfully.
The immediate contact between master and disciple, as well as the relationship among leading monks, especially in Kyoto, their literary and artistic interests, their tangible surroundings in the monasteries, and their immersion in the traditional current of their school are to be intimated just as well as the historical circumstances and the exchange between Chinese and Japanese Zen.
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Année:
1997
Editeur::
Artibus Asiae/Museum Rietberg Zurich
Langue:
english
Pages:
384
ISBN 10:
3907070623
ISBN 13:
9783907070628
Fichier:
PDF, 93.92 MB
IPFS:
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english, 1997