[Ebook free] Shots in the Dark: Japan, Zen, and the West (Buddhism and Modernity)
·•●- Shoji Yamada ·•●-
| #521558 in Books | 2009-05-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x1.00 x6.00l,1.10 | File Name: 0226947645 | 304 pages
||14 of 14 people found the following review helpful.| Seeing Japan as we want to see it, not as it is|By AlchemistGeorge|Professor Yamada's well written and easy to read book deals with two "icons" of Japanese culture - the rock garden at Ryoanji and Japanese Archery (Kyudo) as described in Eugen Herrigel's "Zen in the Art of Archery". It discusses their relationship with Zen Buddhism, and ultimately discusses how we perceive J||
"A very enjoyable meditation on the curious thing called 'Zen' —not the Japanese religious tradition but rather the Western cliché of Zen that is embraced in advertising, self-help books, and much more. . . . Yamada, who is both a schol
In the years after World War II, Westerners and Japanese alike elevated Zen to the quintessence of spirituality in Japan. Pursuing the sources of Zen as a Japanese ideal, Shoji Yamada uncovers the surprising role of two cultural touchstones: Eugen Herrigel’s Zen in the Art of Archery and the Ryoanji dry-landscape rock garden. Yamada shows how both became facile conduits for exporting and importing Japanese culture.
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