Zen Masters of Meditation in Images and Writings

by Helmut Brinker

The old "Masters of Meditation," Zenji, liked to talk to their followers and disciples in similes and metaphors. They confronted and provoked them with seemingly obvious images drawn from daily life and with enigmatic teachings. In the "ink traces," bokuseki , of their brush and in the portraits, chinzo, the characters and substance of the masters are revealed most poignantly, and both served the Zen adherents to absorb word and spirit of their religious...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3907070623
• ISBN13: 9783907070628
• Release Date: March 1997
• Publisher: Artibus Asiae/Museum Rietberg Zurich
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 4.85 lbs.