The Poetry Demon: Song-Dynasty Monks on Verse and the Way
(Part of the Kuroda Studies in East Asian Buddhism Series)
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Chinese Buddhist monks of the Song dynasty (960-1279) called the irresistible urge to compose poetry "the poetry demon." In this ambitious study, Jason Protass seeks to bridge the fields of Buddhist studies and Chinese literature to examine the place of poetry in the lives of Song monks. Although much has been written about verses in the gong'an (Jpn. kōan) tradition, very little is known about the large corpora--roughly 30,000 extant poems--composed...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:082488910X
ISBN13:9780824889104
Release Date:April 2022
Publisher:University of Hawaii Press
Length:352 Pages
Weight:0.05 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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