Japanese Death Poems (Softcover) 1 left Buddhism Rakta or Raktachandana

Rakta or Raktachandana

The insightful commentary by Chogyam Trungpa explains what the text teaches us about human psychology

he was the winner of the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize

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Japanese Death Poems (Softcover) 1 left Buddhism Rakta or RaktachandanaJapanese Death Poems (Softcover): Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death. Compiled by Yoel Hoffmann. These death poems reflect important aspects of Japanese culture still largely unfamiliar to many Western readers. In Japan, the approach of death has occasionally been a time for poets to observe a centuries old tradition of writing jisei, or the "death poem", often written in the very last moments of the poet's life. Hoffman