- Title Pages
- Frontispiece
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Translator’s Introduction
-
Chapter 1 Preface -
Chapter 2 Life -
Chapter 3 Buddhism and Culture -
Chapter 4 In Memory of the Great Master Man’gong on the Fifteenth Anniversary of His Death -
Chapter 5 On New Year’s Day of the Twenty-Fifth Year after Joining the Monastery -
Chapter 6 A Proposal to the World Fellowship of Buddhists Conference -
Chapter 7 Why Has Buddhism Launched a Purification Movement? -
Chapter 8 Is the Mind One or Two? -
Chapter 9 What Is Faith? -
Chapter 10 The Path to No-Mind -
Chapter 11 Having Burned Away My Youth -
Chapter 12 With a Returned Gift in My Hand -
Chapter 13 Having Prepared a Clean Copy of My Master’s Manuscript (by Yi Wŏlsong) -
Chapter 14 Return to Emptiness -
Chapter 15 Meditation and the Attainment of the Mind -
Chapter 16 Prayer and Chanting -
Chapter 17 Path to Eternity - Character Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Translator
- Series Information
- Production Notes
With a Returned Gift in My Hand
With a Returned Gift in My Hand
- Chapter:
- (p.199) Chapter 12 With a Returned Gift in My Hand
- Source:
- Reflections of a Zen Buddhist Nun
- Author(s):
Kim Iryŏp
, Jin Y. Park- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
This chapter contains Mr. B.'s letter to Kim Iryŏp. Mr. B. remembers the days when he and Iryŏp met; they were adults who had already experienced married life, but very pure and passionate in their love for each other. While Iryŏp has become a religious woman who has transcended the secular world, Mr. B. says he is just an ordinary man occupied with secular affairs. In his letter Mr. B. tells his story to Iryŏp after their separation, claiming that he has been practicing chanting aloud, calling out the name Avalokiteśvara Bodhisattva, the mother of great compassion. He also asks for her forgiveness and wants to vent his secular feelings for her.
Keywords: love, Kim Iryŏp, chanting, Avalokiteśvara Bodhisattva, compassion
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- Title Pages
- Frontispiece
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Translator’s Introduction
-
Chapter 1 Preface -
Chapter 2 Life -
Chapter 3 Buddhism and Culture -
Chapter 4 In Memory of the Great Master Man’gong on the Fifteenth Anniversary of His Death -
Chapter 5 On New Year’s Day of the Twenty-Fifth Year after Joining the Monastery -
Chapter 6 A Proposal to the World Fellowship of Buddhists Conference -
Chapter 7 Why Has Buddhism Launched a Purification Movement? -
Chapter 8 Is the Mind One or Two? -
Chapter 9 What Is Faith? -
Chapter 10 The Path to No-Mind -
Chapter 11 Having Burned Away My Youth -
Chapter 12 With a Returned Gift in My Hand -
Chapter 13 Having Prepared a Clean Copy of My Master’s Manuscript (by Yi Wŏlsong) -
Chapter 14 Return to Emptiness -
Chapter 15 Meditation and the Attainment of the Mind -
Chapter 16 Prayer and Chanting -
Chapter 17 Path to Eternity - Character Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Translator
- Series Information
- Production Notes