Zen and the Art of Calligraphy: The Essence of Sho

by Omori Sogen, Terayama Katsujo, John Stevens (Translator)

Excellent Book

Genres: Zen

128 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1983

About the author

Japanese Rinzai Rōshi, a successor in the Tenryū-ji line of Rinzai Zen, and former president of Hanazono University, the Rinzai university in Kyoto, Japan. He became a priest in 1945.

Reviews

[Lysergius · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a book the reader will find himself (or herself) coming back to again and again as if for refreshment from a pure spring. There is something about Zen and calligraphy that go together, like tea and boiling water.