Thank You And Ok!: An American Zen Failure in Japan - Couverture souple

Chadwick, David

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140194576 ISBN 13 : 9780140194579

Editeur : Penguin, 1994

Synopsis

David Chadwick, a Texas-raised wanderer, college dropout, bumbling social activist, and hobbyhorse musician, began his Zen study under Shunryu Suzuki Roshi in 1966. In 1988 Chadwick flew to Japan to begin a four-year period of voluntary exile and remedial Zen education. In Thank You and OK! he recounts his experiences both inside and beyond the monastery walls and offers insightful portraits of the characters he knew in that world—the bickering monks, the patient abbot, the trotting housewives, the ominous insects, the bewildered bureaucrats, and the frustrating English-language students—as they worked inexorably toward initiating him into the ways of Japan. Whether you’re interested in Japan, Buddhism, or exotic travel writing, this book is great fun.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

David Chadwick selected and edited the accounts that make up To Shine One Corner of the World, drawing on hundreds of interviews and notes amassed in the creation of his acclaimed biography of Suzuki, Crooked Cucumber, and from his ongoing oral history of Shunryu Suzuki. Chadwick himself began study Zen with Suzuki Roshi in 1966 and was ordained by him in 1971. He is also the author of Thank You and OK!: An American Zen Failure in Japan.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin
• Date d'édition: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0140194576
• ISBN 13: 9780140194579
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 480
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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