The Zen Art Book

The Zen Art Book
Author: Stephen Addiss
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Total Pages: 111
Release: 2009
Genre: Art
ISBN: 159030747X

"When a Zen master puts brush to paper, the resulting image is an expression of the quality of his or her mind. It is thus a teaching, intended to compassionately stop us in our tracks and to compel us to consider ultimate truth. Here, forty masterpieces of painting and calligraphy by renowned masters such as Hakuin Ekaku (1685–1768) and Gibon Sengai (1750–1837) are reproduced along with commentary that illuminates both the art and its teaching. The authors’ essays provide an excellent introduction to both the aesthetic and didactic aspects of this art that can be profound, perplexing, serious, humorous, and breathtakingly beautiful—often all within the same simple piece."--Publisher description.

The Zen Arts

The Zen Arts
Author: Rupert Cox
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2013-11-05
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1136855580

The tea ceremony and the martial arts are intimately linked in the popular and historical imagination with Zen Buddhism, and Japanese culture. They are commonly interpreted as religio-aesthetic pursuits which express core spiritual values through bodily gesture and the creation of highly valued objects. Ideally, the experience of practising the Zen arts culminates in enlightenment. This book challenges that long-held view and proposes that the Zen arts should be understood as part of a literary and visual history of representing Japanese culture through the arts. Cox argues that these texts and images emerged fully as systems for representing the arts during the modern period, produced within Japan as a form of cultural nationalism and outside Japan as part of an orientalist discourse. Practitioners' experiences are in fact rarely referred to in terms of Zen or art, but instead are spatially and socially grounded. Combining anthropological description with historical criticism, Cox shows that the Zen arts are best understood in terms of a dynamic relationship between an aesthetic discourse on art and culture and the social and embodied experiences of those who participate in them.

Zen and the Art of Postmodern Philosophy

Zen and the Art of Postmodern Philosophy
Author: Carl Olson
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2000-08-24
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780791446539

Carl Olson is Professor of Religious Studies at Allegheny College in Pennsylvania. His previous books include The Indian Renouncer and Postmodern Poison: A Cross-Cultural Encounter and The Theology and Philosophy of Eliade: A Search for the Centre.

Where the Heart Beats

Where the Heart Beats
Author: Kay Larson
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 497
Release: 2013-07-30
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0143123475

A “heroic” biography of John Cage and his “awakening through Zen Buddhism”—“a kind of love story” about a brilliant American pioneer of the creative arts who transformed himself and his culture (The New York Times) Composer John Cage sought the silence of a mind at peace with itself—and found it in Zen Buddhism, a spiritual path that changed both his music and his view of the universe. “Remarkably researched, exquisitely written,” Where the Heart Beats weaves together “a great many threads of cultural history” (Maria Popova, Brain Pickings) to illuminate Cage’s struggle to accept himself and his relationship with choreographer Merce Cunningham. Freed to be his own man, Cage originated exciting experiments that set him at the epicenter of a new avant-garde forming in the 1950s. Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, Yoko Ono, Allan Kaprow, Morton Feldman, and Leo Castelli were among those influenced by his ‘teaching’ and ‘preaching.’ Where the Heart Beats shows the blossoming of Zen in the very heart of American culture.

Zen in the Art of Archery

Zen in the Art of Archery
Author: Herrigel Eugen
Publisher: Waking Lion Press
Total Pages: 90
Release: 2021-04
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9781434104694

A fascinating introduction to Zen principles and learning.

Zen in the Art of Rhetoric

Zen in the Art of Rhetoric
Author: Mark Lawrence McPhail
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 1996-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780791428030

Explores relationships between classical and contemporary approaches to rhetoric and their connection to the underlying assumptions at work in Zen Buddhism.

Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet

Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet
Author: Thich Nhat Hanh
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2021-10-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0062954830

NATIONAL BESTSELLER “When you wake up and you see that the Earth is not just the environment, the Earth is us, you touch the nature of interbeing. And at that moment you can have real communication with the Earth… We have to wake up together. And if we wake up together, then we have a chance. Our way of living our life and planning our future has led us into this situation. And now we need to look deeply to find a way out, not only as individuals, but as a collective, a species.” -- Thich Nhat Hanh We face a potent intersection of crises: ecological destruction, rising inequality, racial injustice, and the lasting impacts of a devastating pandemic. The situation is beyond urgent. To face these challenges, we need to find ways to strengthen our clarity, compassion, and courage to act. Beloved Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh is blazingly clear: there’s one thing we all have the power to change, which can make all the difference, and that is our mind. Our way of looking, seeing, and thinking determines every choice we make, the everyday actions we take or avoid, how we relate to those we love or oppose, and how we react in a crisis. Mindfulness and the radical insights of Zen meditation can give us the strength and clarity we need to help create a regenerative world in which all life is respected. Filled with Thich Nhat Hanh’s inspiring meditations, Zen stories and experiences from his own activism, as well as commentary from Sister True Dedication, one of his students Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet shows us a new way of seeing and living that can bring healing and harmony to ourselves, our relationships, and the Earth.

Zen and the Fine Arts

Zen and the Fine Arts
Author: Shinʼichi Hisamatsu
Publisher: Kodansha
Total Pages: 412
Release: 1982
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

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When Buddhists Attack

When Buddhists Attack
Author: Jeffrey Mann
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2012-10-10
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1462910483

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