Zen Masters Of Japan: The Second Step East

In this exploration of the history of Zen, author Rick McDaniel takes the reader on a journey from China to Japan, and eventually across the Pacific to the United States in order to understand how Zen has become a popular concept in Western culture. This volume in the series, following Zen Masters of China, focuses specifically on the lineage of Zen masters in the Japanese tradition. By combining Zen with existing aspects of Japanese culture, Zen became infused into Japan, effecting a spiritual transformation of the archipelago. From tea ceremonies, to ceramics, calligraphy, and archery, Zen became an aesthetic principle as much as a spiritual one, and changed life in Japan for everyone from the lowliest peasant to the Samurai warrior. A powerful work of spiritual and aesthetic history.

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