02628nam 2200541 450 991080612030332120230803205450.00-7022-5308-1(CKB)3710000000259530(EBL)1813925(SSID)ssj0001413410(PQKBManifestationID)11790955(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001413410(PQKBWorkID)11416044(PQKB)11124019(MiAaPQ)EBC1813925(Au-PeEL)EBL1813925(CaPaEBR)ebr10953489(CaONFJC)MIL652571(OCoLC)893333141(EXLCZ)99371000000025953020141025h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPeacemongers /Barry HillSaint Lucia, Queensland, Australia :University of Queensland Press,2014.©20141 online resource (678 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7022-5325-1 1-322-21291-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Title page; Author's Note - Rabindranath Tagore; Dedication; Epigraph; Contents; 1 SLIPPERY BUDDHA; 2 TAGORE GOES EAST - First Visit to Japan; 3 IN THE NAME OF THE BUDDHA - Tagore's Return to the Far East, 1924 and 1929; 4 TAGORE'S PIANO; 5 MOTHER BURNING; 6 REASON AND LOVELESSNESS - Tagore, the Tokyo Trial and Justice Pal; 7 AT THE EDGE OF THE FOREST - Essential Death, Essential Life; 8 HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR; 9 THREE DAYS LATER; 10 TRUE DREAMS OF FLIGHT; Acknowledgments; Bibliography; Endnotes; Index; CopyrightA literary masterpiece, this latest book from award-winning author Barry Hill is a travel book, a history book, and a peace book. His odyssey begins with a pilgrimage to Bodhi Gaya in India, where the Buddha received enlightenment, and ends after he reaches Nagasaki, Japan, in the aftermath of its atomic bomb. His traveling is imbued with the life and ideas of India's greatest artist and intellectual, Rabindranath Tagore, along with that of M. K. Gandhi, who Tagore called "Mahatma," Great Soul. He's then traveling, like Tagore, in Japan, and meditating on its militarist turn, its warmongering Pilgrims and pilgrimagesPilgrims and pilgrimages.291.446Hill Barry1599485MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910806120303321Peacemongers3922197UNINA