Murmured Conversations – A Treatise on Poetry and Buddhism by the Poet–Monk Shi…

Murmured ConversationsA Treatise on Poetry and Buddhism by the Poet-Monk Shinkei\nAuthor(s): Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9780804748636, 978-0804748636\nSynopsis\nMurmured Conversations is the first complete and rigorously annotated translation of Sasamegoto [tel], considered the most important and representative poetic treatise of the medieval period in Japan because of its thoroughgoing construction of poetry as a way to attain, and signify through language, the mental liberation (satori) that is the goal of Buddhist practice. It is a fascinating document revealing the central place of Buddhist philosophy in medieval Japanese artistic practices. Shinkei [tel], the author of the treatise, is himself a major poet, regarded as the most brilliant among the practitioners of linked poetry (renga) in the Muromachi Period. \n\n Along with the extensive annotations, Ramirez-.