{"product_id":"for-nirvana-9780231179911","title":"For Nirvana","description":"\u003ci\u003eFor Nirvana\u003c\/i\u003e features exceptional examples of the poet Cho Oh-Hyun's award-winning work. Cho Oh-Hyun was born in Miryang, South Gyeongsang Province, Korea, and has lived in retreat in the mountains since becoming a novice monk at the age of seven. Writing under the Buddhist name Musan, he has composed hundreds of poems in seclusion, many in the sijo style, a relatively fixed syllabic poetic form similar to Japanese haiku and tanka. \u003ci\u003eFor Nirvana\u003c\/i\u003e contains 108 Zen \u003ci\u003esijo\u003c\/i\u003e poems (108 representing the number of \u003ci\u003eklesas\u003c\/i\u003e, or \"defilements,\" that one must overcome to attain enlightenment). These transfixing works play with traditional religious and metaphysical themes and include a number of \"story\" sijo, a longer, more personal style that is one of Cho Oh-Hyun's major innovations. Kwon Youngmin, a leading scholar of sijo, provides a contextualizing introduction, and in his afterword, Heinz Insu Fenkl reflects on the unique challenges of translating the collection.","brand":"Oh-Hyun Cho","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48277021327611,"sku":"9780231179911","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9780231179911.jpg?v=1772481211","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/for-nirvana-9780231179911","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}