Reading Zen in the Rocks: The Japanese Dry Landscape Garden - Tapa dura

Berthier, Francois

 
9780226044118: Reading Zen in the Rocks: The Japanese Dry Landscape Garden
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ISBN 10: 0226044114 ISBN 13: 9780226044118
Editorial: University of Chicago Press, 2000

Sinopsis

While museums across North America are replicating "Zen rock gardens" in their courtyards and miniature versions now decorate offices, these Zen gardens remain enigmatic, their philosophical and aesthetic significance obscured. French historian Francois Berthier traces the history of the karesansui garden in Reading Zen in the Rocks, here translated by Graham Parkes and beautifully illustrated with photographs of all the major gardens discussed. Berthier traces the roles of Shinto and Zen Buddhism in the evolution of the garden and also considers how manual laborers from the lowest classes in Japan had a hand in creating some of its highest examples. Parkes contributes an equally original and substantive essay, which delves into the philosophical importance of rocks and their "language of stone," delineating the difference between Chinese and Japanese rock gardens and their relationship to Buddhism. Together, the two essays compose one of the most comprehensive and elegantly written studies of this haunting garden form. Reading Zen in the Rocks is a handsome addition to the library of anyone interested in gardening, Eastern philosophy, and the combination of the two that the karesansui so superbly represents.

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François Berthier is professor of Japanese art and history at the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales in Paris. Graham Parkes is professor of philosophy at the University of Hawaii.

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Editorial
University of Chicago Press
Año de publicación
2000
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0226044114
ISBN 13 
9780226044118
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
172
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ISBN 10:  0226044122 ISBN 13:  9780226044125
Editorial: University of Chicago Press, 2005
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