Japanese Death Poems (Softcover) 1 left Buddhism Sandalwood smells somewhat like other

Sandalwood smells somewhat like other wood scents

he was the winner of the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize

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

Compiled more than two thousand years ago by a mysterious warrior-philosopher

Japanese Death Poems (Softcover) 1 left Buddhism Sandalwood smells somewhat like otherJapanese 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