Richard Jeffe

Richard Jeffe is a doctoral candidate in Buddhist Studies at Yale University researching the emergence of the married Buddhist clergy in early modern Japan.

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Three Zen Masters: Ikkyu, Hakuin, and Ryokan

THREE ZEN MASTERS: Ikkyu, Hakuin, and RyokanJohn StevensKodansha International: New York, 1993.161 pp., $10.00 (paperback). Richard Jaffe IF ALL THE JAPANESE BOOKS, both popular and scholarly, devoted to Ikkyu, Hakuin, and Ryokan were collected in one…

By Richard Jeffe

Fall 1993

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