A Glimpse of Nothingness. Experiences in an American Zen Community. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.

Van de Wetering, Janwillem

ISBN 10: 0395204429 / ISBN 13: 9780395204429

Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1975

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Octavo, 21,9 cm Erste Auflage, [8], 184 pp. Original black cloth, title on spine. Original illustrated dust-jacket. Front jacket photograph by Charles Ellis. Sprache: Englisch, (Dust-jacket slightly rubbed and protected with Brodart. Upper edge lightly foxed, else fine.). Signed by the author on the half-title. - First English edition, first printing, with full numberline. Erste englischsprachige Ausgabe. Schwarze Original-Leinwand mit Titel auf Rücken und japanischer Kalligraphie auf Vorderdeckel. Original-Schutzumschlag, geschützt mit Brodart. Vom Autor auf dem Vortitel recto signiert. Schutzumschlag minimal berieben, oberer Schnitt minimal stockfleckig, sonst fast neuwertig. Schönes Exemplar. "Janwillem Lincoln van de Wetering (geb. 12. Februar 1931 in Rotterdam; gest. 4. Juli 2008 in Blue Hill, Maine, Vereinigte Staaten) war ein niederländischer Schriftsteller, der insbesondere durch seine Kriminalromane bekannt wurde. (.) Schließlich entfloh er 1957 den Turbulenzen nach London, wo er am University College London ein Philosophiestudium begann, bevor er sich ab Februar 1958 für achtzehn Monate in das Zen-Kloster Daitoku-ji im japanischen Kyoto zurückzog. Seine Suche nach der Erleuchtung im Buddhismus beschrieb er später in mehreren Büchern." (Wikipedia). - RFM - Weitere Bilder auf Anfrage oder auf unserer Homepage.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Glimpse of Nothingness. Experiences in an American Zen Community. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston
• Publication Date: 1975
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0395204429
• ISBN 13: 9780395204429
• Binding: Leinen
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: mit Schutzumschlag
• Signed: Signatur des Verfassers
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

The author records a two-week intensive retreat with the American assistant of his former Japanese Zen master, his reactions to the company of American disciples, and his achievement of mystical experience after more than ten years of meditation

From the Publisher

"A Glimpse of Nothingness is so honest--so 'Zen'--that it contains...just life....it's just truth." --San Francisco Review

"This is a book that deserves serious attention...eminently readable, easy to relate to on several different levels, and a fascinating and encouraging tale of human communal endeavor." --The New York Times Book Review

"I was pleasantly surprised to find the book enjoyable...the main virtue of this book is van de Wetering's skill for re-creating places, feelings, scenes, and encounters. The book is relaxed, alternately serious and humorous, and insightful. A Glimpse of Nothingness describes the Zen path of one Westerner who began by seeking for the sense of it all, and who came to realize at least a part of it." --The Shambhala Review

"The most down-to-earth account of the Zen discipline ever written for Westerners...van de Wetering clears away the thicket of intellectualization and mannered inscrutability and gets down to the ordinariness of Zen. Even those who normally reject spiritual trips...will find this dogged, bourgeois seeker hard to ignore." --Kirkus Reviews