Author Description

Introduction To Zen Matters / Pamela D. Winfield And Steven Heine -- 'thy Rod And Thy Staff They Discomfort Me:' Zen Staffs As Implements Of Instruction / Steven Heine -- Materializing The Zen Monastery / Pamela D. Winfield -- Form And Function: Tea Bowls And The Problem Of Zen In Chanoyu / Morgan Pitelka -- Prayer Beads In Soto Zen / Michaela Mross -- The Importance Of Imports: Ingen's Material Culture At Manpukuji / Patricia J. Graham -- Visual Culture In Japan's Imperial Buddhist Convents: The Making Of Devotional Objects As Expressions Of Faith And Practice / Patricia Fister -- Zen Buddhist Robes And Sectarian Identities In Early Modern Japan / Diane E. Riggs -- The Zen Of Rags / Paula Arai -- Zen Sells Zen Things: Meditation Supply, Right Livelihood, And Buddhist Retail / Gregory P.a. Levine -- Sino-japanese Glossary. Edited By Pamela D. Winfield, Steven Heine. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.