ISBN:
9781136855511
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1136855513
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (297 pages)
Series Statement:
Royal Asiatic Society Books
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Cox, Rupert Zen Arts : An Anthropological Study of the Culture of Aesthetic Form in Japan
DDC:
306.470952
Keywords:
Zen Buddhism Japan
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Arts and society Japan
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Aesthetics Japan
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Zen Buddhism
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Arts and society
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Aesthetics
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POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
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Aesthetics
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Arts and society
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Zen Buddhism
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Japan
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
The tea ceremony and the martial arts are intimately linked in the popular and historical imagination with Zen Buddhism, and Japanese culture. They are commonly interpreted as religio-aesthetic pursuits which express core spiritual values through bodily gesture and the creation of highly valued objects. Ideally, the experience of practising the Zen arts culminates in enlightenment. This book challenges that long-held view and proposes that the Zen arts should be understood as part of a literary and visual history of representing Japanese culture through the arts. Cox argues that these texts and
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