Gleanings in Buddha-Fields : Studies of Hand and Soul in the Far East


Lafcadio. Hearn
Bok Engelsk 2012 · Electronic books.
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Boston : : Tuttle Publishing, , 2012.
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1 online resource (312 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - [ TABLE OF CONTENTS ]; PUBLISHER'S FOREWORD; I: A LIVING GOD; II: OUT OF THE STREET; III: NOTES OF A TRIP TO KYOTO; IV: DUST; V: ABOUT FACES IN JAPANESE ART; VI: NINGYO-NO-HAKA; VII: IN OSAKA; VIII: BUDDHIST ALLUSIONS IN JAPANESE FOLKSONG; IX: NIRVANA; X: THE REBIRTH OF KATSUGORO; XI: WITHIN THE CIRCLE. - Lafcadio Hearn's books continue to charm and captivate readers, as the exotic subjects about which he wrote charmed and captivated him. Gleanings In Buddha-Fields presents more Hearn magic as he enters into the spirit of Buddhism asthough he were born into it. ""I an individual,"" he writes, ""an individualsoul! Nay, I am a population-a population unthinkable for multitude, even by groups of a thousand millions! Generations of generations, I am, aeons of aeons! Countless times the concourse now making me has been scattered, and mixed withother scatterings. Of what concern, the
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080480978X. - 9780804809788

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