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An Anthology of Poetry by Buddhist Nuns of Late Imperial China
Av Beata Grant
Inbunden, 2023
372 kr
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The Hsu-Tang Library presents authoritative and eminently readable translations of classical Chinese literature, in bilingual editions, ranging across three millennia and the entire Sinitic world.This anthology opens up new religious and poetic worlds for readers. It consists of translations of …
Red Brush
Writing Women of Imperial China
Häftad, 2004
401 kr
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One of the most exciting recent developments in the study of Chinese literature has been the rediscovery of an extremely rich and diverse tradition of women's writing of the imperial period (221 BCE-1911 CE). Many of these writings are of considerable literary quality. Others provide us with moving …
Daughters of Emptiness
Poems of Chinese Buddhist Nuns
Av Beata Grant
E-bok, 2012
239 kr
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Women played major roles in the history of Buddhist China, but given the paucity of the remaining records, their voices have all but faded. In Daughters of Emptiness , Beata Grant renders a great service by recovering and translating the enchanting verse - by turns assertive, observant, devout - of …
Zen Echoes
Classic Koans with Verse Commentaries by Three Female Chan Masters
Av Beata Grant
E-bok, 2017
159 kr
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The voices of three female Zen masters reverberate in this much-needed collection. Too often the history of Zen seems to be written as an unbroken masculine line: male teacher to male student. In this timely volume, Beata Grant shows us that women masters do exist—and have always existed. Zen …
Eminent Nuns
Women Chan Masters of Seventeenth-century China
Av Beata Grant
Inbunden, 2008
556 kr
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Although Buddhist nuns have been a continuous presence in Chinese culture since early medieval times and the subject of numerous scholarly studies, this book is one of the first not only to provide a detailed view of their activities at one particular moment in time (the seventeenth century), but …