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Western Buddhist Plays

Western Buddhist Plays

Wright, John

Paperback

BuddhismGeneral PoetryPlays

ISBN10: 095398575X
ISBN13: 9780953985753
Publisher: Mayajala Books
Published: Dec 12 2025
Pages: 174
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.37 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This groundbreaking collection brings together a cycle of contemporary plays that fuse the clarity of Buddhist insight with the timeless structures of Greek tragedy and the meditative austerity of Japanese Noh. At once ritual and drama, these works explore the universal struggles of suffering, compassion, and release, staging the human condition in forms both ancient and new.

Drawing on the grandeur of Greek choruses and the stillness of Noh masks, Western Buddhist Plays reimagines theatre as a contemplative practice. Characters move between the everyday and the mythic, confronting impermanence, longing, and liberation with voices that echo across cultures.

For theatre-makers, scholars, and seekers alike, this book offers a unique meeting of East and West, past and present-a dramatic language where silence speaks as powerfully as words, and where the stage becomes a path toward awakening.

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