Sand and Pebbles

Sand and PebblesSand and Pebbles presents the first complete English rendering of Shasekishthe classic, popular Buddhist "Tale Literature" (setsuwa). This collection of instructive, yet often humorous, anecdotes appeared in the late thirteenth century, within decades of the first stirrings of the revolutionary movements of Kamakura Buddhism. Shasekish's author, Muj Ichien (1226 1312), lived in a rural temple apart from the centers of political and literary activity,

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