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FURTHER READING

Anthologies

Kamens, Edward. The Buddhist Poetry of the Great Kamo Priestess: Daisaiin Senshi and 'Hosshin Wakashñ. ' Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies, 1990, 170 p.

Offers Buddhist readings of the poetry of Daisaiin Senshi, a Japanese writer of the late tenth and early eleventh centuries.

Master Sheng-yen. The Poetry of Enlightenment: Poems by Ancient Ch'an Masters. Elmhurst, N. Y.: Dharma Drum Publications, 1987, 103 p.

Translated collection of Chinese Buddhist poems designed "to describe the ineffable experience of Ch'an" (Chinese Zen).

Pollack, David, ed. Zen Poems of the Five Mountains. Decatur, GA: Scholars Press, 1985, 166 p.

Anthology of medieval Japanese Zen poetry.

Stryk, Lucien and Ikemoto Takashi, trans. Zen: Poems, Prayers, Sermons, Anecdotes, Interviews. Second Edition. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1981, 160 p.

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