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  • Daughters of Emptiness

    Poems of Chinese Buddhist Nuns

    by Beata Grant ...
    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 forty-eight nuns from sixteen centuries of imperial China. This selection of poems, along with the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Zen Echoes

    Classic Koans with Verse Commentaries by Three Female Chan Masters

    by Beata Grant ...
    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 Echoes is a collection of classic koans from Zen’s Chinese history that were first collected and commented ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • In the Shade of the Green Willow

    Poems and Reflections of a Buddhist Woman in Modern China

    by Zhang Ruzhao ...
    Translated by Beata Grant ...
    Through verse, the rural world becomes the landscape for a woman’s resolute spiritual quest, set against the restless currents of twentieth-century China.Twentieth-century China was rife with political and spiritual turmoil as it sought to shake off the shackles of its imperial past and move along the path of modernization. In the midst of this turmoil, Zhang Ruzhao (later ordained as Tiantai ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • The Clouds Should Know Me By Now

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    Edited by Red Pine, Mike O'Connor ...
    This unique collection presents the verse, much of it translated for the first time, of fourteen eminent Chinese Buddhist poet monks. Featuring the original Chinese as well as english translations and historical introductions by Burton Watson, J.P. Seaton, Paul Hansen, James Sanford, and the editors, this book provides an appreciation and understanding of this elegant and traditional expression of ... Read more

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  • Zhuangzi: Basic Writings

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    Translated by Burton Watson ...
    Series series Translations from the Asian Classics
    Only by inhabiting Dao (the Way of Nature) and dwelling in its unity can humankind achieve true happiness and freedom, in both life and death. This is Daoist philosophy's central tenet, espoused by the person—or group of people—known as Zhuangzi (369?–286? BCE) in a text by the same name. To be free, individuals must discard rigid distinctions between right and wrong, and follow a course of action ... Read more

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