加里·斯奈德的日本情结_感悟(国外英文资料).doc

加里·斯奈德的日本情结_感悟(国外英文资料) Not feasible. Zen is a religion that has lasted for thousands of years and is open to everyone who wants to learn. It is the Eastern wisdom that Snyder is looking for, so he begins to study Japanese and Chinese and dreams of going to japan. In 1956, Snyder, through Ruth Zozoms arrangement, went to the first Zen college in Kyoto, where he worked as interpreter and research. The same year, at the beginning of the Kyoto Xichan temple, he cleaned the hair, abide by the Buddhist precepts, and follow the master concentrated Zen temple. The totally strange cultural background gave Snyder a lot of insights and felt that there was a lot to learn, so he learned not only Zen Buddhism, but also language, culture and history. In 1969 to an article in the San Francisco Zen Center magazine wind bell wrote in the review of this experience: in Japan, I have been learning Japanese and Berkeley Chinese, because I have strong feelings for Sinology and similar knowledge, so it is love, but at the same time, but there always seems to be a paradoxical feeling, because of Daisetz Suzukis book about Zen first attracted me is far from learning, learning in addition to books, text and theory....... After studying for a year in Japan, Snyder was able to find a job as a sailor for the time to understand Zen and to make a little money. Snyder followed the tanker to the United states. In 1958, Snyder spent nine months in the San Francisco Bay area. Second years of poetry stone published, met a female poet Joanne Kaig, a year after Snyder and Kay married, before marriage, Snyder had a brief marriage for six months, but with Joanne Kaigs marriage only lasted four years. In 1959, Snyder went to Kyoto Dade temple, as the first foreign disciple Chuang with the ODA snow, but this is not a monk, but to lay the identity of studying rinzai. Snyder once described as experienced in Dade temple learning: every day at least 5 hours meditating in meditation, intermittent, everyone must