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Poetry: Buddhist

Many Buddhist masters are inspired to compose poetry, and many traditions use poetry as a teaching medium.

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	Mudra
	Early Poems and Songs
	Chogyam Trungpa
	Wisdom Price £13.18 (save 15%)
	The spirit of this collection of poems and songs of devotion is spontaneous and celebratory. A mudra is a symbolic gesture or action that gives physical expression to an inner state, and these...
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	Canoeing Up Cabarga Creek
	Buddhist Poems 1955-1986
	Whalen, Philip
	Wisdom Price £3.60 (save 60%)
	By the abbot of the Hartford Street Zen Center in San Francisco, this is a retrospective collection of Buddhist poetry written over a thirty year...
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	One Robe, One Bowl
	Zen Poetry of Ryokan
	Stevens, John and Ryokan, Taigu
	Wisdom Price £10.04 (save 33%)
	New edition. The beauty and pathos of life from the pen of the eccentric hermit monk Ryokan. Ryokan`s poetry is that of the mature Zen master, its...
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	Dewdrops on a Lotus Leaf
	Zen Poems of Ryokan
	Ryokan, Taigu and Stevens, John
	Wisdom Price £10.49 (save 30%)
	New edition. Ryokan the 18th-century poet-recluse is one of the most famous figures in Zen, renowned for his eccentric character, his...
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	Poems of Early Buddhist Nuns
	Therigatha
	Rhys Davids, Caroline and Norman, K R
	Wisdom Price £9.00
	A translation of the Therigatha, the poems, or verses, of the first Buddhist nuns. These poems provide the earliest extant evidence of...
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	Buddhist Ideas in English Poetry
	Moore, Cyril
	Wisdom Price £0.48 (save 5%)
	A brief essay. Bodhi Leaf...
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	Ryokan: Zen Monk Poet of Japan
	Watson, Burton and Ryokan, Taigu
	Wisdom Price £22.00
	Ryokan (1758-1831), a Zen Buddhist monk, was also a major figure in Tokugawa poetry. His poems are mainly a record of his daily activities, but...
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	Poems of Early Buddhist Monks
	Theragatha
	Norman, K R
	Wisdom Price £9.00
	A translation of the Theragatha, the poems, or verses, of the first Buddhist monks. Many of these verses are descriptions of the peace of nirvana. Some are of a...
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	Beyond Self
	108 Korean Zen Poems
	Ko Un
	Wisdom Price £6.60 (save 40%)
	"Ko Un is a magnificent poet, a combination of Buddhist cognoscente, passionate political libertarian and natural historian. This little book of Zen poems gives a glimpse of the severe...
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	Elders Verses [2 Vols Set]
	Norman, K R
	Wisdom Price £46.00
	Translation of the Theragatha and Therigatha, the verses composed by the early Buddhist bhikkhus and bhikkhunis, the orders of monks and...
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	Fire Dance and Other Poems
	Titmuss, Christopher
	Wisdom Price £3.96 (save 20%)
	Poetry from Christopher Titmuss, former Buddhist monk and renowned insight meditation...
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	Elders Verses [Vol 1]
	Theragatha
	Norman, K R
	Wisdom Price £24.75
	Translation of the Theragatha, verses composed by the early Buddhist bhikkhus, the order of...
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	Beat Book
	Writings from the Beat Generation
	Waldman, Anne
	Wisdom Price £11.22 (save 32%)
	The Beat poets, including Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Boroughs, Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen, Michael McLure, Diane Di Prima and others, constituted a major...
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	On Love and Barley
	Haiku of Basho
	Basho, Matsuo
	Wisdom Price £5.99 (save 25%)
	By combining the ideals of "karumi" - lightness of touch - and oneness with nature Basho rose above the artificiality of previous haiku poets to master of the genre. A follower...
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	Vangisa
	An Early Buddhist Poet
	Ireland, John D
	Wisdom Price £1.71 (save 5%)
	Vangisa was the disciple of the Buddha foremost in the composition of spontaneous verse. This work provides the original Pali text and an English translation of Vangisa's poems. The...
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	Timely Rain
	Selected Poetry of Chogyam Trungpa
	Chogyam Trungpa
	Wisdom Price £12.91 (save 32%)
	These poems and songs combine a background in classical Tibetan poetry with Trungpa's insight into the spirit of America, a spirit that is powerfully evoked in his use...
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	Message of the Saints
	Thera Theri Gatha
	Gunaratna, V F
	Wisdom Price £0.86 (save 5%)
	A brief study of the Therigatha and Theragatha verses composed by the early Buddhist monks and nuns. Wheel...
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	Psalms of the Early Buddhists
	Psalms of the Sisters and Psalms of the Brethren
	Rhys Davids, Caroline
	Wisdom Price £46.90
	An early translation from the Pali Text Society of the Therigatha and the Theragatha, the verses and poetry of...
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	Elders Verses [Vol 2]
	Therigatha
	Norman, K R
	Wisdom Price £24.75
	Translation of the Therigatha, verses composed by the early Buddhist bhikkhunis, the order of...
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	Gleanings in Time
	Story, Francis
	Wisdom Price £1.58 (save 10%)
	Prose and verse from the posthumous writings of the Buddhist scholar Francis...
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