Genre: Nonfiction
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Sounds of valley streams : enlightenment in Dogen’s Zen, translation of nine essays from Shobogenzo
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Master Dogen’s Shinji Shobogenzo
The Shinji Shobogenzo is a marvelous collection of 301 Zen koan stories in three volumes that the Japanese Buddhist master Dogen collected during his four-year stay in China. The stories were written in Chinese, and are records of conversations between Buddhist masters and their students. Dogen used many of these stories as the basis for…
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Enlightenment unfolds : the essential teachings of Zen Master Dogen
Works written by Dogen throughout his life, presented in chronological order, beginning with the journal from his study in China, providing a substantial selection from his masterwork, Treasury of the true dharma eye, and concluding with his spare but eloquent death poem. A number of the selections appear here in English for the first time.
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Silence to light : Japan and the shadows of war
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On a Small Bridge in Iraq
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Underground
Covers the 1995 Tokyo Gas Attack, during which agents of a Japanese cult released a gas deadlier than cyanide into the subway system, as documented in interviews with its survivors, perpetrators, and victim family members. In March 1995, agents of a Japanese religious cult attacked the Tokyo subway system with sarin, a gas twenty six…
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The way of the samurai : Yukio Mishima on Hagakure in modern life
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In praise of shadows