Gleanings in Buddha-Fields
STUDIES OF HAND AND SOUL
IN THE FAR EAST
BY
LAFCADIO HEARN
LECTURER ON ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE IMPERIAL UNIVERSITY OF JAPAN
LONDON
KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRÜBNER & COMPANY LIMITED
[1897]
COPYRIGHT 1897 BY
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND CO.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Scanned, proofed and formatted at sacred-texts.com, March 2002 by John Bruno Hare. This text is in the public domain in the US because it was published prior to 1923.
This is a wonderful collection of Lafcadio Hearn’s essays on Buddhism, Japan, and Japanese folklore.—J.B. Hare
¶ Index
- I. A Living God
- II. Out of the Street
- III. Notes of a trip to Kyôto
- IV. Dust
- V. About Faces in Japanese Art
- VI. Ningyô-no-Haka
- VII. In Ôsaka
- VIII. Buddhist Allusions in Japanese Folk-Song
- IX. Nirvana, A Study in Synthetic Buddhism
- X. The Rebirth of Katsugorô
- XI. Within the Circle