Zen Culture

Zen Culture

“Thomas Hoover has a considerable gift for expressing his appreciation and understanding of various arts associated with Zen. . . . These are deftly treated, with a concise synopsis of the historical development of each; and together Hoover’s discussions provide an excellent introduction to the aesthetics of Japanese culture.”--Kirkus Reviewsthetics of Japanese Architecture The No Theater Part III: The Rise of Popular Zen Culture: 1573 to the Present Bourgeois Society and Later Zen The Tea Ceremony Zen Ceramic Art Zen and Haiku Private Zen: Flowers and Food The Lessons of Zen Culture References Bibliography Glossary Part I THE BEGINNINGS: PREHISTORY TO 1333 CHAPTER ONE Zen Culture and the Counter Mind Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. Matthew 6:28 Pre-Buddhist clay figure (haniwa) The Zen tradition extends back some fifteen hundred years to a wandering Indian teacher of meditation named Bodhidharma. As Indian gurus are fond of doing, Bodhidharma left his homeland and journeyed abroad, following what was in those days a well-beaten trail to China. Upon reaching Nanking, he paused to visit the Chinese Emperor Wu, a man known to be a particularly devout

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