Essays in Idleness

-- The Asian Student

List of contents

Preface to the Second Paperback Edition Foreword, by William Theodore de Bary Preface Introduction Essays in Idleness Selected Bibliography Index -- The Asian Student

About the author

Summary

The Buddhist priest Kenko clung to tradition, Buddhism, and the pleasures of solitude, and the themes he treats in his Essays, written sometime between 1330 and 1332, are all suffused with an unspoken acceptance of Buddhist beliefs.

Product details

• Authors: Donald Keene, Yoshida Kenko, Kenko Yoshida
• Assisted by: Donald Keene (Translation), Keene Donald (Translation)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.04.1998
• EAN: 9780231112550
• ISBN: 978-0-231-11255-0
• No. of pages: 235
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 225 mm x 16 mm
• Series: Translations from the Asian Classics; Translations from the Asian Cl; Translations from the Asian Classics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; RELIGION / Buddhism / General, Buddhism