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The Book of Tea

ByKakuzo Okakura

When tea is more than a drink and the tea ceremony is understood and practiced to foster harmony in humanity, promote harmony with nature, discipline the mind, quiet the heart, and attain the purity of enlightenment, the art of tea becomes teaism. It is a synthesis of Taoism, Zennism, and tea. It is likely that it alludes more to the Taoist influences on Zen, and subsequently the Chado, or the Japanese Tea Ceremony. In this sense tea is more than a drink and more than an art, it is integrated in the culture and the mind. The term Chinese:chadao or Japanese:chado in English is a difficult translation task. In most common use and easy to express translation is “tea ceremony”. A direct translation is “the way of tea” or “the way of tea”.

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Publication Date
Mar 2, 2012
Language
English
ISBN
9781105576461
Category
Religion & Spirituality
Copyright
All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
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By (author): Kakuzo Okakura

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EPUB

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