japanese

This book is a collection of some of Konrad’s reviews and writings. The collection is divided into two parts, primarily the sections „Letters”, its reviews. The second section is called Life, but this is only true in a limited sense. It contains Conrad’s views on some of the pressing political issues of the day. They range from the Russo-Japanese War and the question of the independence of Poland to...

„Zło, moralność i śmierć są nie tylko popularnymi tematami w japońskim folklorze, ale zdają się być wręcz tematem centralnym japońskiej tradycji: niemal każdy festiwal, rytuał i zwyczaj odnosi się do powiązań między żyjącymi a zmarłymi, między żyjącą rodziną, a jej zmarłymi przodkami, między teraźniejszością a przeszłością” Michiko Iwasaka, Barre Toelken, Ghosts and the Japanese: Cultural...

„The Garden of Vision” (1929) is a story of Japanese Zen Buddhism and martial arts situated in Britain and Japan in the 1920’s. The chief character is an English woman who joins the school. „L. Adams Beck” was one of the pen-names of Elizabeth Louisa Moresby, a Canadian writer who wrote most of her 30 books in the last 10 years of her life. She was also known as Eliza Louisa Moresby Beck and Lily Moresby...

The Thunder Dragon Gate is the name of a monastery in Tibet, which is considered a portal to Shambhala, and therefore is a symbol of the threshold to higher levels of spiritual consciousness. American secret agent Tom Greene and his wife, Elsa, are trying to send troopers to the Tho-Pa-gault gate, returning to Tibet to restore the sacred duty and find out what they can do on the way to Shambhala. There...