Three Japanese Buddhist Monks Floating World caught between the misleading world

caught between the misleading world of childlike fantasy and the bitter world of reality

In this surreal collection of short vignettes

"Ocampo is beyond great—she is necessary

Phyllis La Farge wrote several books for children

thus giving them a noble and stiff character

Three Japanese Buddhist Monks Floating World caught between the misleading worldThree Japanese Buddhist Monks Saigyo, Kamo no Chomei, Yoshida Kenko 112 page paperback in Penguin's Great Ideas series ISBN 9780241472910 *** "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