Zen-life : Ikkyū and beyond /
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| Author / Creator: | Steiner, Evgeny, author. |
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| Imprint: | Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014. |
| Description: | xxii, 449 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9902963 |
Table of Contents:
- List of illustrations
- Foreword
- Chapter 1. The birth of Ikkyu: Political life in Japan at that time
- Ikkyu's origins
- Two-Court Japan
- The Lady from lyo
- Chapter 2. Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth in Monasteries: Zen and the Gozan System
- Early Evidence of Zen in Japan
- Chan in China
- The Emergence of Japan's Five Mountains
- Zen Monasticism and the "Unity of the three Doctrines"
- First Monasteries and First Poems
- The move to Otokan
- A Suicide Attempt
- Life with Kaso
- Koans: The Road to Enlightenment
- First Satori. Entering the Pause
- Zen's ladder, or The Steps of the Way
- Great Satori
- The Certificate of Enlightenment
- Chapter 3. Vagabond Years
- Leaving Kaso
- "Taming the Wild Ox"
- Crazy Cloud
- Bodily Zen
- Zen to the People!
- Samsara is Nirvana
- Ikkyu and the Beauties
- Holy foolishness and Ikkyu
- First Post. Ikkyu and Yoso
- Chapter 4. The years of Maturity
- Yuzuriha, the Hunger Strike
- Three Temples
- The Disasters of the Country
- The Skeletons
- The War Between Buddhas and Demons
- The Mandala of the Diamond World and the Attitude towards Other Sects
- The Traces of Amidaism: Self-Admonition and The Naked Amida
- Chapter 5. Ikkyu and the Arts
- Ikkyu's Aesthetics: Furyu and Wabi
- Poetry
- Calligraphy
- Painting
- The Plum Branch
- The Method of Art: Ideography
- The Content of Art: "Pictures of the Heart"
- The Artistic Modeling of the Environment: Gardens
- The Artistic Modeling of Communion: Tea
- "Sitting in Unity:" Renga
- The Action of the Shared Passions: No Theater
- Chapter 6. Ikkyu's Zen, or An Attempt to Construct a Model of Japanese Medieval Consciousness
- The Absence of Self
- Openness
- Interconnection
- Continuity and Consciousness in Buddhist Thought
- Collective Consciousness: Linguistic and Psychological Aspects
- The Stream of Consciousness - The Stream of Being
- Chapter 7. Old Age, Love, Glory
- Xutang Embodied
- Chamber Dreams
- The Blind Singer
- The Family Portrait
- Shoko, the Consolation of Old Age
- The Abbot
- From Life to Hagiography
- Bibliography
- Indices
