Contents:
William Scott Wilson.
A Practice of Padmasambhava. Rinchen Dargye. Japanese Death Poems. Yoel Hoffmann. Secret Lives of the Dalai Lama. Alexander Norman. Tao Te Ching. Lao Tzu. Iga and Koka Ninja Skills. Antony Cummins. Samurai Women — Giuseppe Rava. Wild Ivy. Hakuin Ekaku. Japanese Tea Ceremony. Shaun McCabe. Chogyam Trungpa. Bankei Zen.
Peter Haskel. The Tale of the Heike. Royall Tyler. Walter Henry Nelson.
Basho's Narrow Road. Matsuo Basho. Toyoda Masanaga. Matthew T.
Women of the Way. Sallie Tisdale. Gundu Rao.
The Tales of the Heike is one of the most influential works in Japanese literature and culture, remaining even today a crucial source for fiction, drama, and. The Tales of the Heike is one of the most influential works in Japanese literature and Translated by Burton Watson. Translations from the Asian Classics.
Pamela S. Classic Haiku. Yuzuru Miura. Buddha's Noble Eightfold Path. Tales of Moonlight and Rain. Akinari Ueda.
Thus at the age of thirty-six, Tadamori was able for the first time to enter the palace. Generally considered the greatest of the gunki or war tales, though I must admit I did not find it as exciting as expected. The Ambassadors Penguin Classics. The Genre of Warrior Tales The Tales of the Heike is the most famous example of a warrior tale gunki or gunki-mono , a major genre in medieval Japanese literature. The Tales of the Heike is one of the most influential works in Japanese literature and culture, remaining even today a crucial source for fiction, drama, and popular media. The Lone Samurai. Thomas Yuho Kirchner.
The Sword of No-Sword. John Stevens. Samurai Swordsman. Stephen Turnbull. The Swordsman's Handbook. To Dispel the Misery of the World. Ga Rabjampa. The Heritage of the Bhikkhu. Walpola Rahula. Sources of Japanese Tradition. Theodore de Bary. Memoirs of the Warrior Kumagai. Donald Richie. Zen Masters Of China.
Richard Bryan McDaniel. A New History of Shinto. John Breen. A Life of the Buddha. Sherab Chodzin Kohn. Zen Antics. Thomas Cleary. James Trapp. A Chinese Wonder Book. Norman Hinsdale Pitman. Simon Wickham-Smith. Waiting for the Lady. Christopher G. The Book of Dede Korkut. Geoffrey Lewis.
Drime Kunga. Entangling Vines. Thomas Yuho Kirchner. David Hinton. Thomas Rimer. An Imperial Concubine's Tale. Postcolonial Yearning. Awesome Nightfall. Public Discourses of Contemporary China. Poison Blossoms from a Thicket of Thorns.
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