Vegetable Roots Discourse: Wisdom from Ming China on Life and Living - Tapa blanda

Zicheng, Hong; Kwok, Daniel W.Y.

 
9781593761202: Vegetable Roots Discourse: Wisdom from Ming China on Life and Living
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ISBN 10: 1593761201 ISBN 13: 9781593761202
Editorial: Counterpoint, 2007

Sinopsis

Written 400 years ago by a scholar in the Ming Dynasty, one hundred years after Columbus and around the time Shakespeare completed Henry VI, accomplished scholar and philosopher Hong Zicheng retired from public life and settled down to write an informal compilation of his thoughts on the essence of life, human nature, and heaven and earth. Though he wrote other books as well, only this one has survived—thanks largely to its continuous popularity, first in China and later in Japan and Korea. Entitled Caigentan (Vegetable Roots Discourse), this book has been studied and cherished for four hundred years.

Terse, humorous, witty, and. above all, timely, this book offers a provocative and personal mix of Daoist, Buddhist, and Confucian understanding. It contains 360 observations that lead us through paths as complex, absurd, and grotesque as life itself. While it has been translated into many languages, this comprehensive version will immediately become the standard edition for generations of English readers to come.

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Hong Zicheng was a Chinese philosopher who lived during the end of the Ming Dynasty.

Robert Aitken is the author of more than a dozen books about Buddhism, including A Zen Wave, Encouraging Words, and Taking the Path of Zen. A dedicated Buddhist for most of his life, he is a former abbot and roshi of the Honolulu Diamond Sangha in Hawaii, which he co-founded with his late wife Anne Hopkins Aitken in 1959. He now lives in retirement at the Palolo Zen Center in Honolulu.

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Editorial
Counterpoint
Año de publicación
2007
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Inglés
ISBN 10 
1593761201
ISBN 13 
9781593761202
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Número de páginas
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9781593760915: Vegetable Roots Discourse: Wisdom from Ming China on Life and Living

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ISBN 10:  1593760914 ISBN 13:  9781593760915
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