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In the second section the scene shifts to San Francisco and to a larger group of writers, including the young San Francisco poet Gary Snyder. It was Snyder whom Kerouac used as the model for his main character, "Japhy Ryder," in The Dharma Bums, a novel that takes place in...
Changing Stereotype. The fact remains that no American city outside New York has produced such a remarkable number of vital talents as Los Angeles. The minimal cool and delicacy of much Los Angeles work can be seen as partly a retreat from the incredibly blatant environment in which it is...
Of the many forms of Buddhism, the one best known in the West is Zen. Its guiding principles of inward meditation versus doctrine, of emphasis on the visceral and spontaneous as against the cerebral and structured, of inspiration rather than linear "logic," were seized on by the early beatniks, taken...
To the casual gallerygoer, Zen art might not appear vastly different from classical Oriental art and indeed is customarily exhibited as part of its main body without special classification. In fact, Zen is distinctive for two reasons: 1) it was created largely by Zen monks, who did not consider themselves...
The Zen distrust of theory and doctrine was summed up by Liang K'ai, an artist of the early 13th century, who captured in a few exquisitely jagged brush strokes an illiterate patriarch, howling with glee, tearing up a sutra, or sacred text. It is an Oriental parallel to...