2/15/2023 0 Comments Storm in a teacup bpm![]() I investigate the impact of Zen meditation on von Sturmer’s poetry and elucidate the philosophical underpinnings of his imagistic holism. The second half of the thesis constitutes a doctrinal reading of von Sturmer’s work. How does von Sturmer reinterpret Buddhist teachings according to his own time and place? In what ways does von Sturmer’s Zen poetry differ from his American peers and his Japanese and Chinese predecessors to offer something of relevance to New Zealand? Through these questions, I explore in what way von Sturmer contributes to the creation of a Buddhist literature for New Zealand. As such, I begin with a consideration of how von Sturmer’s biography and Zen poetry fits into wider frames of Western Buddhism and Western Buddhist literature. This is the first scholarly study of von Sturmer’s writing. Two of his published literary works present themselves in explicit dialogue with Indian, Chinese and Japanese writings of Mahāyāna Buddhism, and demonstrate an extensive engagement with Zen literature. Having undertaken over ten years’ intensive training in Zen Buddhism, and having co-founded the Auckland Zen Centre with Amala Wrightson, von Sturmer is an accomplished practitioner of Zen. This research is interested in the intersection of the artistic and the religious in the poetry of Richard von Sturmer (1957- ).
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