Lưu Vân Thiễn Họa – The Clouds’ Drifting Over Zen Paintings

Viên Thức. Lưu Vân Thiễn Họa – The Clouds’ Drifting Over Zen Paintings. Hanoi: NXB Mỹ Thuật, 2001. First edition. Quarto. 105, [3]pp. Original illustrated wrappers. Fly leaf inscribed and signed in English by the author. Splendid collection of 96 Zen poems by Viên Thức, a Vietnamese Zen practitioner, poet and painter who seems to be painting, and drawing his way to Nirvana. Each poem is illustrated with a b/w or color reproduction of one of the author’s paintings or texts. The poems send a message of “peace and connectedness” characteristic of the Zen philosophy. Poems in Vietnamese and English. Minor shelf wear. Wrappers in overall good+ to very good, interior in very good condition. vg. Softcover. (38167) $65