Book cover of Japanese Death Poems

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"A wonderful introduction the Japanese tradition of jisei, this volume is crammed with exquisite, spontaneous verse and pithy, often hilarious, descriptions of the eccentric and committed monastics who wrote the poems." -Tricycle: The Buddhist Review

Although the consciousness of death is, in most cultures, very much a part of life,…

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