Chanoyu, widely known as the tea ceremony, developed in Japan in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. In it, such ordinary acts of daily life as serving a meal and tea to guests have been raised to the status of religious discipline. Wind in the Pines is a collection of writings that seeks to illuminate the nature and aesthetics of chanoyu as a Buddhist path.
Format
Hardcover
Release
January 01, 1995
ISBN 13
9780895819093
Wind in the Pines: Classic Writings of the Way of Tea as a Buddhist Path
Chanoyu, widely known as the tea ceremony, developed in Japan in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. In it, such ordinary acts of daily life as serving a meal and tea to guests have been raised to the status of religious discipline. Wind in the Pines is a collection of writings that seeks to illuminate the nature and aesthetics of chanoyu as a Buddhist path.