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For Nirvana: 108 Zen Sijo Poems
Oh-Hyun Cho
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Description for For Nirvana: 108 Zen Sijo Poems
Paperback. Translator(s): Fenkl, Heinz Insu. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; 3JJP; DCF; HPDF; HREZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 141 x 177 x 9. Weight in Grams: 172.
For Nirvana features exceptional examples of the poet Cho Oh-Hyun's award-winning work. Cho Oh-Hyun was born in Miryang, South Gyeongsang Province, Korea, and has lived in retreat in the mountains since becoming a novice monk at the age of seven. Writing under the Buddhist name Musan, he has composed hundreds of poems in seclusion, many in the sijo style, a relatively fixed syllabic poetic form similar to Japanese haiku and tanka. For Nirvana contains 108 Zen sijo poems (108 representing the number of klesas, or defilements, that one must overcome to attain enlightenment). These transfixing works play with ... Read more
For Nirvana features exceptional examples of the poet Cho Oh-Hyun's award-winning work. Cho Oh-Hyun was born in Miryang, South Gyeongsang Province, Korea, and has lived in retreat in the mountains since becoming a novice monk at the age of seven. Writing under the Buddhist name Musan, he has composed hundreds of poems in seclusion, many in the sijo style, a relatively fixed syllabic poetic form similar to Japanese haiku and tanka. For Nirvana contains 108 Zen sijo poems (108 representing the number of klesas, or defilements, that one must overcome to attain enlightenment). These transfixing works play with ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
172 g
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231179911
SKU
V9780231179911
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About Oh-Hyun Cho
Cho Oh-Hyun is in retreat at Baekdamsa Temple at Mt. Seoraksan. The lineage holder of the Mt. Gaji school of Korean Nine Mountains Zen, he received the Cheong Chi-yong Literary Award for Distant Holy Man in 2007, and translations of his work have appeared in Asymptote, the Buddhist Poetry Review, Asia Literary Review, Azalea, and the Adirondack Review. Heinz ... Read more
Reviews for For Nirvana: 108 Zen Sijo Poems
In his Translator's Afterword, Heinz Insu Fenkl describes his astonishing encounter with the poems in this collection-from dream encounter with the poet, to the poems, then the poet himself. Extraordinary workings of the three-line sijo form into the spaces of Zen practice, the poems call us to see!
David McCann, Harvard University Reading these translations of Cho Oh-hyun's Zen ... Read more
David McCann, Harvard University Reading these translations of Cho Oh-hyun's Zen ... Read more