Teaching Zen’s Ten Oxherding Pictures through Leonard Cohen’s “Ballad of the Absent Mare”

This paper describes how to teach Zen’s famous Ten Oxherding Pictures through Leonard Cohen’s song “Ballad of the Absent Mare.” It also explains how instructors can contextualize these pictures within the history of Buddhist visual culture and thereby frame Cohen’s adoption of them as a cowboy balla...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ronald Green
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2017-04-01
Series:The ASIANetwork Exchange: A Journal for Asian Studies in the Liberal Arts
Subjects:
Zen
Online Access:http://www.asianetworkexchange.org/articles/131