'The Monk was so highly popular that it seemed to create an epoch in our literature', wrote Sir Walter Scott. Set in the sinister monastery of the Capuchins in Madrid, The Monk is a violent tale of ambition, murder, and incest. The great struggle between maintaining monastic vows and fulfilling personal ambitions leads its main character, the monk Ambrosio, to temptation and t...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Matthew "Monk" Lewis published "The Monk" in 1796 when he was only 21. The novel follows the diabolical decline of Ambrosio, a worthy Capuchin superior, who, tempted by Matilda, a young girl who has entered his monastery dressed as a boy, succumbs to murder, magic, incest and torture.

'Monks who cherish Mickey Mouse and collect motorbikes, hardened businessmen who read love poetry and geishas who visit temples'. Such was the paradoxical world that Pico Iyer was confronted with when he spent a year in the ancient Japanese capital of Kyoto.

When Pico Iyer decided to go to Kyoto and live in a monastery, he did so to learn about Zen Buddhism from the inside, to get to know Kyoto, one of the loveliest old cities in the world, and to find out something about Japanese culture today -- not the world of businessmen and production lines, but the traditional world of changing seasons and the silence of temples, of the imag...(展开全部)

A groundbreaking monograph on Yuan dynasty Buddhism, Illusory Abiding offers a cultural history of Buddhism through a case study of the eminent Chan master Zhongfeng Mingben. Natasha Heller demonstrates that Mingben, and other monks of his stature, developed a range of cultural competencies through which they navigated social and intellectual relationships. They mastered repert...(展开全部)

In an attempt to reconstruct an elusive aspect of the medieval Chinese imagination, The Eminent Monk examines biographies of Chinese Buddhist monks, from the uncompromising ascetic to the unfathomable wonder-worker. While analyzing images of the monk in medieval China, the author addresses some questions encountered along the way: What are we to make of accounts in “eminent mon...(展开全部)

Jean Francois-Revel, a pillar of French intellectual life in our time, became world famous for his challenges to both Communism and Christianity. Twenty-seven years ago, his son, Matthieu Ricard, gave up a promising career as a scientist to study Tibetan Buddhism -- not as a detached observer but by immersing himself in its practice under the guidance of its greatest living mas...(展开全部)

让-弗朗索瓦•何维勒（Jean-Francois Revel） 法兰西学院院士，1924年生，哲学教授、政治评论家，所著政治评论在西方世界皆引起很大反响，曾任法国新闻周刊《快报》总编辑，现居巴黎。 马修•理查德（Matthieu Richard） 佛教僧侣。生于1946年，曾为巴黎巴斯特学院分子生物博士。1972年移居印度，向佛教大师们学习，二十多年来过着佛教僧侣的生活。出家前曾写过一本鸟类迁移的著作，出家后的作品有《顿悟之旅》。至今一直从事藏文经文的翻译，现居尼泊尔谢城寺。 译者简介： 赖声川 台湾知名舞台剧导演，1954年生于美国华盛顿。美国加州伯克莱大学戏剧艺术博士。曾任国立台北艺术大学戏剧学院教授及院长。1984年参与创立剧团表演工作坊，担任艺术总监。自1984年开始剧场创作，后陆续开创台湾舞台剧市场，即兴时事电视剧市场，受到中外媒体赞誉，并...(展开全部)

In A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Hugo Award-winner Becky Chambers's delightful new Monk & Robot series gives us hope for the future. It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; centuries since they wandered, en masse, into the wilderness, never to be seen again; centuries since they faded into myth and urban legend. One day, the ...(展开全部)