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Gleanings in Buddha-Fields
Lafcadio Hearn · Buddhism · 1897
11 chapters
Lafcadio Hearn's twelve essays on Buddhism in late-19th-century Japan — Pure Land devotion, Zen, the soul-life of villages and temples, and the encounters of an outsider becoming, slowly, an insider.
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Contents
- 1I. A Living God
- 2II. Out of the Street
- 3III. Notes of a trip to Kyôto
- 4IV. Dust
- 5V. About Faces in Japanese Art
- 6VI. Ningyô-no-Haka
- 7VII. In Ôsaka
- 8VIII. Buddhist Allusions in Japanese Folk-Song
- 9IX. Nirvana, A Study in Synthetic Buddhism
- 10X. The Rebirth of Katsugorô
- 11XI. Within the Circle
