Pre-Owned Hymn of Asia: An Eastern Poem (Hardcover) 0884040356 9780884040354

Man has long dreamed of solving the riddle of his own existence and achieving personal freedom. This has been the great hope of man through the millennia of his histories--both East and West. Now at last, in the 1046 lines of this poem, is the statement that this hope has been achieved -- You can be free. This moving hymn was written for a Buddhist Convention in about 1955 or '56, coincident with the celebrations in the Buddhist world of the 2,500th year of the Buddhist era. Later, typed copies of this magnificent work, many in altered versions, were widely circulated from hand to hand in various countries of the world. The public demand for its publication grew enormous. Then in late 1973 its author directed its publication and subsequently personally supervised the collaboration of a talented artist, designer and calligrapher in the final preparation of the book. Thus here we have a beautiful edition which presents the fully correct original text of the poem, one surely destined to become a major document of Man's spiritual history.