Tokyo Ueno Station is the Japan the tourists never see, because it’s literally swept off the streets. We hear about it from the inside. This is Kazu’s story, told by Yu Miri and translated by Morgan Giles. A middle-aged man…
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Tokyo Ueno Station
Tagged with: books, Buddhism, homelessness, Japan, Japanese, Morgan Giles, Tilted Axis Press, Tokyo Ueno Station, Translation, Yu Miri
Posted in books, translation
Posted in books, translation
Cold Mountain
Cold Mountain is a both a person and a place. A Buddhist monk, he brings the way to life through stories. He finds stillness inside him where he is. And he shows you, the reader, that you can do the…
Tagged with: Bill Porter, books, Buddhism, China, Cold Mountain, Han Shan, Poetry, Red Pine, Tao, Translation
Posted in books, poetry, translation
Posted in books, poetry, translation
points of gold in the dark
The first Mongolian poetry book in English translation to be published in the US after The End of the Dark Era – it’s no surprise it’s from Phoneme. Tseveendorjin Oidov, like so many artists in the Soviet sphere of influence,…
Tagged with: Buddhism, modernism, Mongolian, Poetry, Simon Wickhamsmith, The End of the Dark Era, Tranlsation, Tseveendorjin Oidov
Posted in books, history, poetry, translation
Posted in books, history, poetry, translation
Losar Tashi Delek! Happy New Year!
In his Tibetan new year greeting, the fourteenth Dalai Lama explains: “If you create the causes of happiness, if you lead your life in benefiting others and not harming them, that’s a meaningful life, a life that has ‘tashi’. On that basis…
Tagged with: Buddhism, Chinese, Dalai Lama, fire monkey, Gangkye Somdung, High Peaks Pure Earth, New Year, Poetry, Tara Stotra, Tibetan, Tibetan and Himalayan Library, Translation
Posted in faith, poetry, translation
Posted in faith, poetry, translation
Murty Classical Library’s Therīgāthā: Poems of the First Buddhist Women
A thing of beauty was released into the world today. It was already there, but now more people can read it. The first five volumes of the Murty Classical Library of Indian literature are now published: 2 millennia of culture…
Tagged with: Buddhism, Charles Hallisey, Dhammadina, Harvard University Press, India, Literature, Massolit Books, Murty Classical Library, Pali, Poetry, Sallie Tisdale, Therigatha, Translation
Posted in books, international, literature, poetry, translation
Posted in books, international, literature, poetry, translation
found in translation 