Three Japanese Buddhist Monks

Three Japanese Buddhist Monks - Saigyo, Kamo no Chomei, Yoshida Kenko / 112-page paperback in Penguin's Great Ideas series / ISBN 9780241472910

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"I have relinquished all that ties me to the world, but the one thing that still haunts me is the beauty of the sky"

A guiding light amid the world's chaos and a manual for rejecting materialism, in the form of writings by Japanese Buddhist monks

These simple, inspiring writings by three medieval Buddhist monks offer peace and wisdom amid the world's uncertainties, and are an invitation to relinquish earthly desires and instead taste life in the moment.