masterpiece Kamo no Chōmei, Notes from my cabin Monk (1212) remain today all the freshness of immediate experience that were written at the time by the Buddhist monk.
Kamo no Chōmei (115 5-1216) belonged to a family of priests of the imperial court of Japan but renounced the world and retired as a Buddhist monk at a lonely cottage, where he spent the last eight years of his life and where he wrote his works main, among which the notes from my cabin monk (1212), a masterpiece of classical Japanese literature. In this work, imbued with the sense of the transience of the world, Chomei expresses its deep Buddhist beliefs as a practitioner of Buddhism Pure Land or Amidism. It is a work of great beauty, full of deep experience so typical nature of the Japanese spirit, written by a man who, without hiding the difficulties they have to face anyone who embarks on the spiritual path, exp...read more
