Burton Watson

Basic Writings

Chuang Tzu

The Poetry of Ishikawa Jozan and Other Edo-Period Poets

Kanshi

From Early Times to the Thirteenth Century

The Columbia Book of Chinese Poetry

The Analects of Confucius (Translations from the Asian Classics)

Han Feizi

Hiroaki Sato

A survey of Japanese poetry contains the works of over one hundred poets from the eighth century to the present

An Anthology of Japanese Poetry

From the Country of Eight Islands

Haruo Shirane

Originally written in the mid-thirteenth century, The Tales of the Heike chronicles the epic Genpei war, a civil conflict that marked the end of the power of the Heike clan and changed the course of Japanese history. Featuring a vivid cast of characters, the book depicts the emerging world of the medieval samurai and recounts in absorbing detail the chaos of the battlefield, the intrigue of the imperial court, and the gradual loss of courtly tradition. This new, abridged translation presents the work's most gripping episodes and includes woodblock illustrations, a glossary of characters, and an extended bibliography.

The Tales of the Heike

I-hsüan

Yixuan

Renowned scholar Burton Watson's translation exactingly depicts the life and teachings of the great ninth-century Chinese Zen master Lin-chi, one of the most highly regarded of the T'ang period masters.

A Translation of the Lin-chi Lu

The Zen Teachings of Master Lin-chi

The Lotus Sutra clearly and definitively reveals the buddha nature that is an integral part of the lives of all people. And it makesclear that the Buddha desires and acts so that all people, by opening up this buddhanature inherent within themselves, mayattain the state of buddhahood forthemselves. The sutra further stresses that the continued observance of such action is the true mission of the bodhisattva, and never ceases to praise the observance of this practice.

The Lotus Sutra and Its Opening and Closing Sutras

Shih Poetry from the 2. to the 12. Century, with Translations

Chinese Lyricism

An important classic of Zen literature, written by one of the great Zen masters of ancient China. The book, compiled by Lin-chi's disciples, describes the life and teaching of this eminent Zen master and includes a number of his sermons, noted for their brisk and colorful language.S.

Nonfiction. In THE RAINBOW WORLD, Burton Watson, internationally respected translator and writer, charms us with his experiences as a student of East Asian culture and longtime resident of Japan. These essays, written over many years, reflect the changes that have taken place in postwar Japan and suggest both the pleasures and trials experienced by foreigners living there. Taken as a whole, this collection is a candid and warm picture of the Japanese people, presented with humor and lightness of touch.

Japan in Essays and Translations

The Rainbow World

Donald Keene

Wm. Theodore De Bary

Barbara Stoler Miller

C. T. Hsia

Philip B. Yampolsky

Presents the Tso-chuan, a text running to thirty densely written chapters as China's oldest work of narrative history. Its entries provide a year by year account of happenings in the feudal state that made up China from 722 to 468 BC.

The Tso Chuan

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Ssu Ma Chien Grand Historian of China

Grand Historian of China

Ssu-ma Chʻien

This beloved Eastern classic on living simply and in harmony with nature is back as part of the new Shambhala Pocket Library series. The short works collected in Four Huts give voice to one of the most treasured aesthetic and spiritual ideals of Asia--that of a simple life lived in a simple dwelling. The texts were written between the ninth and the seventeenth centuries and convey each author's underlying sense of the world and what is to be valued in it. Four Huts presents original translations by Burton Watson--one of the most respected translators of Chinese and Japanese literature. The qualities that emerge from these writings are an awareness of impermanence, love of nature, fondness for poetry and music, and an appreciation of the quiet life. Four Huts features eleven brush paintings by renowned artist Stephen Addiss.

Asian Writings on the Simple Life

Four Huts

Fu Du

Du Fu (712--777) has been called China's greatest poet, and some call him the greatest nonepic, nondramatic poet whose writings survive in any language. Du Fu excelled in a great variety of poetic forms, showing a richness of language ranging from elegant to colloquial, from allusive to direct. His impressive breadth of subject matter includes intimate personal detail as well as a great deal of historical information -- which earned him the epithet "poet-historian." Some 1,400 of Du Fu's poems survive today, his fame resting on about one hundred that have been widely admired over the centuries. Preeminent translator Burton Watson has selected 127 poems, including those for which Du Fu is best remembered and lesser-known works.

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