Word: zen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...slick packaging. Nothing kills one of those infamous Cambridge cocktail parties faster than a too-complete fatalism. But this magazine starting with a litany of all the terrible things wrong with the world quickly moves on to ice-breaking tidbits like the sayings of a Japanese zen master or a Bucky-Fuller-talking -blues-in-gobbledlygook or the parallels between our war on cancer and Vietnam, "our nation's last great effort in futility...
Seed on Good Earth. Leach's reputation as a bridge between Eastern and Western craft traditions-once a Zen Buddhist, he is now a devout member of the Baha'i faith-has helped to turn his St. Ives studio into a place of pilgrimage for hundreds of younger potters over the years. But the number of students working there remains limited to eleven. In an age of mechanical reproduction and mass production, the "Seventh Kenzan"-as some Japanese potters affectionately call him-has played a major part in preserving the old authority of the human hand. Above...
...friends and I sat down at the Rendezvous after Saturday night's concert, and David told a Zen story...
...woodcarving tradition developed, artists preferred to assemble their work from segments of wood pinned and jointed together. The Japanese, who did most to develop this method, called it yosegi. In this show, the masterpiece of the technique, borrowed from the Cleveland Museum of Art, is a late 13th century Zen carving of a priest, the Hoto Kokushi (literally, Lamp-of-the-Law National Teacher) Muhon Kakushin...
Early sacerdotal portraits of this kind are seldom seen in the West, because most of the surviving ones remain in their temples and are the most sacred of cult objects. The Zen master sits in the lotus position on a plain bench; his robe falls almost to the ground; a pair of empty slippers fit below its hem. Its spread belies the slenderness of the old priest, who was probably about 80 when the likeness was made. His face is all parchment and bone. The prow of a nose and the jutting underlip have a fierce antique gravity, like Renaissance...