Re: history of Komuso

From: supakit bhuphaibool (icarus927@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Mar 13 2002 - 04:35:52 PST


Hi Bud,

Riley Lee's dissertation has a pretty good coverage of the komuso.
It doesn't have a day-to-day activity list (I'm not even sure if one exis=
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in english), but it does have alot to get you started on.

Duke.

>From: "Bud" <bud@rajah.com>
>Reply-To: Shakuhachi@communication.ucsd.edu
>To: <Shakuhachi@communication.ucsd.edu>
>Subject: history of Komuso
>Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 20:07:14 -0800
>
>This may or may not come to be covered in a FAQ, but can anyone help me=20
>find
>good references on the history of the Komuso movement? I'm not looking f=
or
>just the usual lineage charts, but descriptions of the day-to-day in the
>schools, actual stories of the day-to-day lives of the Komuso monks (if
>known?) Detailed histories if this information is available... thanks!
>
>
>Brett "Bud" Breitwieser ( bud@zenbud.com <mailto:bud@zenbud.com> )
>please visit my zen site at http://zenbud.com
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>Impermanence:
>"To what shall
>I liken the world?
>Moonlight, reflected
>In dewdrops,
>Shaken from a crane's bill."
> -Dogen-Zenji
>
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>

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