Eat sleep sit : my year at Japan's most rigorous zen temple

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Eat sleep sit : my year at Japan's most rigorous zen temple

Kaoru Nonomura ; translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter

Kodansha International, 2008, c1996

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(英文版)食う寝る坐る

Ku neru suwaru : Eiheiji shugyoki

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Translation of: 食う寝る坐る

"Originally published by Shinchosha, Tokyo, in 1996, under the title Kuneru suwaru: Eiheiji shugyoki"--T.p. verso

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社会も恋人も捨てて出家した若者が向かった先は、道元が開いた曹洞宗大本山永平寺。そこは東司(トイレ)にも行鉢(食事)にも厳格な作法がある、世俗からかけ離れた世界だった。雲水として修行した一年を丹念に描いた、体験的ノンフィクション。

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  • 1 The End and the Beginning
  • 2 Etiquette Is Zen
  • 3 Alone in the Freezing Dark
  • 4 The Passage of Time
  • 5 The Source of the Warmth of Life
  • 6 The Colors of the Peak,the Echo in the Valley

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At the age of thirty, the author left his family, his girlfriend and his job as a designer to undertake a year of ascetic training at Eiheiji, one of the most rigorous Zen training temples in Japan. This book presents an account of his experiences. It describes various aspects of training, including how to meditate, how to eat and how to wash. At the age of thirty, Kaoru Nonomura left his family, his girlfriend and his job as a designer to undertake a year of ascetic training at Eiheiji, one of the most rigorous Zen training temples in Japan. This book is Nonomura's

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