Genre: Nonfiction
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Rational Zen, the mind of Dogen Zenji
Selected translations of the writings of Dogen.
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Kingyo : the artistry of Japanese goldfish
This book is a highly unique art book that reveals goldfish both as an element of Japanese culture and as an influential design motif over the last 500 years.
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The wholehearted way : a translation of Eihei Dogen’s Bendowa with commentary
Zen Master Dogen’s Bendowa is one of the primary texts on Zen practice. Transcending any particular school of Buddhism or religious belief, Dogen’s profound and poetic writings are respected as a pinnacle of world spiritual literature.” “Bendowa, or “A Talk on the Wholehearted Practice of the Way,” was written in 1231 and expresses Dogen’s teaching…
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Silence to light : Japan and the shadows of war
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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
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On a Small Bridge in Iraq