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Gleanings In Buddha-Fields
by Lafcadio Hearn
Lafcadio Hearn's books have charmed and captivated readers, just as the exotic subjects about which he has written have captivated him. GLEANINGS IN BUDDHA-FIELDS presents more Hearn magic as he enters into the spirit of Buddhism as though he were born into it. This collection of stories, subtitled "Studies of Hand and Soul in the Far East," takes the reader on a journey into the soul of Hearn's adopted land as no other writerespecially a non-Japanese nativecould. He writes of Kyoto in "Notes on a Trip to Kyoto" with such passion and realism he transports you to that place and time; "Dust" juxtaposes a children's playground and death, but shows death as it is to a Buddhist: "The real sorrow and fear of death arise in us only after the slow accumulation of experience with doubt and pain; and these little boys and girls being Japanese and Buddhists will never, in any event, feel about death as you and I do...they have died a million times already, and have forgotten the trouble of it, much as one forgets the pain of successive toothaches."
Table of Contents :
01. A Living God
02. Out Of The Street
03. Notes Of A Trip To Kyôto
04. Dust
05. About Faces In Japanese Art
06. Ningyô-No-Haka
07. In Ôsaka
08. Buddhist Allusions In Japanese Folk-Song
09. Nirvana
10. The Rebirth Of Katsugorô
11. Within The Circle
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