Buddhism and Literature

Buddhism and Literature Criticism

• Introduction
• Representative Works*
• Eastern Literature
  • Poetry and Zen
  • Beginning with Images in the Nature Poetry of Wang Wei
  • The Old Pond
  • Zen Buddhism and the Japanese Haiku
  • Lucien Stryk: An Interview by Kent Johnson
  • Takahashi Shinkichi
  • Dada Meets Zen: Tzara and Takahashi
• Western Literature
  • What is Zen?
  • Introduction
  • Emerson, Whitman, and Zen Buddhism
  • The World that Shines and Sounds: W. B. Yeats and Daisetz Suzuki
  • T. S. Eliot, Buddhism, and the Point of No Return
  • Mrs. Moore's Experience in the Marabar Caves: A Zen Buddhist Reading
  • Zen and Salinger
  • Buddhism and Energy in the Recent Poetry of Gary Snyder
  • The Oriental Connection: Zen and Representations of the Midwest in the Collected Poems of Lucien Stryk
  • Fact and Fiction: The Development of Eco-logical Form in Peter Mathiessen's Far Tortuga
• Further Reading