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Gleanings in Buddha Fields
Lafcadio Hearn
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Lafcadio Hearn was one of the first Westerners to live in Japan during the early Meiji era, and a prolific writer. Although chiefly known for his collections of Japanese ghost stories, he also wrote many non-fiction essays about his life in Japan.
This book contains 11 essays covering a variety of topics. For example, Hearn writes about his visits to Kyoto and Osaka, Japanese art, as well as Buddhism and Nirvana.
Lafcadio Hearn was one of the first Westerners to live in Japan during the early Meiji era, and a prolific writer. Although chiefly known for his collections of Japanese ghost stories, he also wrote many non-fiction essays about his life in Japan.
This book contains 11 essays covering a variety of topics. For example, Hearn writes about his visits to Kyoto and Osaka, Japanese art, as well as Buddhism and Nirvana.
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Hearn's cultural study is really fascinating, specifically in the discussion of Buddhism. Sometimes the text gets a bit wearing but there are certain chapters that really made an impression on me!
Un libro delicioso que he ido leyendo de a poco en estos meses. Incluso hay historias, como la del tsunami, que la leí con mis niños. Hay mucha sabiduría y hermosas crónicas. También muy particular la mirada sobre Osaka y la importancia que ha tenido en Japón, hasta hace poco, el trabajo no asalaria
The DUST essay has some interesting parallels with speculative materialist thought, also the examination of Buddhist themes in popular folk-songs was charming and fascinating. Although romantic, I found in the 'Nirvana: A study in Synthetic Buddhism' essay a utopian and starstruck vision of how glob
I came to this book by way of an anecdote that I stumbled across. The anecdote ended up as a children’s book (also animated in Japan) about an old man who saved a village from a tsunami by lighting his rice fields on fire. Lafcadio Hearn was an odd fellow, but as a western observer of 19th Century J
I found this an interesting and readable set of essays about life and Buddhism in Meiji-era Japan from the perspective of a European-born, American journalist.