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Hidden Buddhas A Novel of Karma and Chaos

Name: Hidden Buddhas
Author: Liza Dalby

Auteur: Liza Dalby

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Liza Dalby

Engels
Paperback
9781933330853
29 oktober 2009
396 pagina's

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Hidden Buddhas may well be Liza Dalby's best work yet; with its fascinating story of characters caught up in a world they themselves don't understand. Besides taking us on a journey through little-known corners of Japan, it offers us an engaging and believable portrait of people driven to do things they may not have imagined. -Arthur Golden, author of Memoirs of a Geisha According to Buddhist theology, the world is suffering through a final corrupt era called mappo. As mappo continues, chaos will increase until the center can no longer hold. Then the world will end. In Japan, many believe that Miroku, Buddha of the Future, will appear and bring about a new age of enlightenment. From this ancient notion of doom and rebirth comes a startling new novel by the acclaimed author of Geisha and The Tale of Murasaki. Hundreds of temples in Japan are known to keep mysterious hidden buddhas secreted away except on rare designated viewing days. These statues are not hidden because they are powerful-their power lies in their being hidden. Are they being protected, or are they protecting the world? In this novel, one Buddhist priest struggles with the dictates of his inherited orthodoxy, while another rebels. An American graduate student begins to suspect the mysterious purpose of the hidden buddhas, just as he falls in love with a beautiful Japanese artist who is haunted by an aborted child. The weaving of karma that brings these two together results in a tech-savvy half-Western, half-Japanese child who text-messages her way through the profane world to enlightenment. Tracing the lives of its characters through the late twentieth century to the present, from Paris to Kyoto to California, Hidden Buddhas turns a cosmopolitan eye on discipline and decadence in religion, fashion, politics, and modern life. Liza Dalby is an anthropologist and writer specializing in Japan. She lives in Berkeley, California.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 29 oktober 2009
Aantal pagina's: 396
Illustraties: Nee

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Hoofdauteur: Liza Dalby
Tweede Illustrator: Michael Hofmann
Hoofduitgeverij: Stone Bridge Press

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Product breedte: 152 mm
Product hoogte: 32 mm
Product lengte: 229 mm
Verpakking breedte: 153 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 229 mm
Verpakking lengte: 229 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 596 g

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