For Nirvana
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For Nirvana

108 Zen Sijo Poems

Oh-Hyun Cho, Heinz Fenkl

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For Nirvana

108 Zen Sijo Poems

Oh-Hyun Cho, Heinz Fenkl

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About This Book

For Nirvana features exceptional examples of the poet Cho Oh-Hyun's award-winning work. Cho Oh-Hyun was born in Miryang, South Gyeongsang Province, Korea, and has lived in retreat in the mountains since becoming a novice monk at the age of seven. Writing under the Buddhist name Musan, he has composed hundreds of poems in seclusion, many in the sijo style, a relatively fixed syllabic poetic form similar to Japanese haiku and tanka. For Nirvana contains 108 Zen sijo poems (108 representing the number of klesas, or "defilements," that one must overcome to attain enlightenment). These transfixing works play with traditional religious and metaphysical themes and include a number of "story" sijo, a longer, more personal style that is one of Cho Oh-Hyun's major innovations. Kwon Youngmin, a leading scholar of sijo, provides a contextualizing introduction, and in his afterword, Heinz Insu Fenkl reflects on the unique challenges of translating the collection.

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Publisher
Columbia University Press
Year
2016
ISBN
9780231542432
Topic
Literatura
Subtopic
Poesía asiática

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APA 6 Citation

Cho, O.-H. (2016). For Nirvana ([edition unavailable]). Columbia University Press. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/774126/for-nirvana-108-zen-sijo-poems-pdf (Original work published 2016)

Chicago Citation

Cho, Oh-Hyun. (2016) 2016. For Nirvana. [Edition unavailable]. Columbia University Press. https://www.perlego.com/book/774126/for-nirvana-108-zen-sijo-poems-pdf.

Harvard Citation

Cho, O.-H. (2016) For Nirvana. [edition unavailable]. Columbia University Press. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/774126/for-nirvana-108-zen-sijo-poems-pdf (Accessed: 14 October 2022).

MLA 7 Citation

Cho, Oh-Hyun. For Nirvana. [edition unavailable]. Columbia University Press, 2016. Web. 14 Oct. 2022.