About this book
"The works of the Rinzal Zen master Gibbon Sengai (1750-1837) are among the most renowned of all Japanese art. Here are 128 examples of great teacher's ink paintings and drawings, accompanied by D. T. Suzuki's commentary on each piece's context and meaning. Sengai's art was his Zen teaching, giving expression to the ineffable with energy, humor, and breathtaking simplicity.
To behold it is to encounter that teaching - as fresh for us today as it was for Sengai's students two hundred years ago."--BOOK JACKET.
Publication Details
- Publisher
- Diane Pub Co
- Published
- 1999
- Pages
- 191
- ISBN
- 9780756761950
About Unknown Author
Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki (鈴木大拙貞太郎 Suzuki Daisetsu Teitarō, October 18, 1870 – July 12, 1966) was a Japanese author of books and essays on Buddhism, Zen and Shin that were instrumental in spreading interest in both Zen and Shin (and Far Eastern philosophy in general) to the West. Suzuki was also a prolific translator of Chinese, Japanese, and Sanskrit literature. Suzuki spent several lengthy stretches teaching or lecturing at Western universities, and devoted many years to a professorship at Otani University, a Japanese Buddhist school.
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