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Three Japanese Buddhist Monks Floating World The literary world owes aThree Japanese Buddhist Monks Saigyo, Kamo no Chomei, Yoshida Kenko 112 page paperback in Penguin's Great Ideas series ISBN 9780241472910 *** "I have relinquished all that ties me to the world, but the one thing that still haunts me is the beauty of the sky" A guiding light amid the world's chaos and a manual for rejecting materialism, in the form of writings by Japanese Buddhist monks These simple, inspiring writings by three medieval Buddhist monks