Zen-life : Ikkyū and beyond /

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:Steiner, Evgeny, author.
Imprint:Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.
Description:xxii, 449 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9902963
Hidden Bibliographic Details
ISBN:9781443854009 (hbk.)
144385400X (hbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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