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Back Issues: 2002

#50: TRANSIENCE
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Cover photo by Thierry Le...

This world of dew
is only a world of dew,
and yet, and yet...

- Issa (1763-1827)
 

CONTENTS:

ARTICLES, ESSAYS & NOTES: Day In, Day Out - the tidal life of a Bangkok soi by Philip J. Cunningham; Arcs and Circles, an essay on the passing of a Kyoto machiya by Marc Peter Keane; extracts from Tariki: Embracing Despair, Discovering Peace, by novelist Itsuki Haruyuki; Icing on the Cake: A Week in the Life of a Tibetan Sand Mandala, by Lauren Deutsch; Dream Corridor, a recollection by Stewart Wachs; Butoh - Inner Dance, by Petra Vermeersch; Illumination in Each Moment, an interview with Kyoto dancer Nishikawa Senrei, by Toyoshima Mizuho; In the Eternal Now, encountering Bishamon-ten, by Ken Rodgers; Satori at the Conveni, consumer insights by Noy Thrupkaew; Treasures, by Karen Hill Anton; Time and Ink, reflections by sumi-e artist Jim Hathaway; A Culture of Simplicity, by Leonard Koren; The Big T, an illumination by Robert Brady; Crossing, by Beverly Effinger; That Brilliant Blazing Energy, an all-encompassing extract from a radio lecture by Alan Watts; The Arbor of Floating Wine-Cups, a parable by Kosaka Hirokazu; China's Book of Changes Changes Again, by Yi Jing software developer Mark Griggs-Smith; No-Self and the Taste of Emptiness, a Zen commentary on Dogen's Genjokoan by Hakuun Yasutani, translated by Paul Jaffe; Rock Flower: on transience and renewal in Japanese form, by Gunter Nitschke; Words of Rikyu Recalled after his Demise, from the Namporoku; The Passing of Beauty and Glory: Transience in The Tale of Genji, observations by translator Royall Tyler; Twelve Months of Everyday Transience -  Kyoto’s heritage of festivals; and The Joy of What's Fleeting, by world traveller/author Pico Iyer.


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Street, Just Deeds, Transience, Media in Asia, Time, Transforming Conflict, Inaka, Orthodoxy & Heresy, Word, Sacred Mountains of Asia, The Death & Resurrection of Kyoto, Radicalism of Cultural Continuity, Neighborhoods, Allure of the Exotic, Kyoto Speaks, Eros, Japan in the Year 2020


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