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Author Hoover, Thomas, 1941-

Title Zen culture / Thomas Hoover.

Publication Info. New York : Random House, [1977]
©1977

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Location Call No. Status
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  952 H789Z    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xx, 262 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography Bibliography: pages [235]-244.
Note Includes index.
Contents The beginnings : prehistory to 1333. Zen culture and the counter mind ; The prelude to Zen culture ; The rise of Japanese Buddhism ; The chronicles of Zen ; Zen archery and swordsmanship (the Kamakura era : 1185-1333) -- The age of high culture : Ashikaga (1333-1373). The great age of Zen ; Zen and the landscape garden ; The stone gardens of Zen ; Zen and the ink landscape ; The Zen aesthetics of Japanese architecture ; The Nō theater -- 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.
Subject Japan -- Civilization -- Zen influences.
ISBN 0394410726
9780394410722
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