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  2. Matsuo Bashō - Wikipedia

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    Bashō's supposed birthplace in Iga Province. Matsuo Bashō was born in 1644, near Ueno, in Iga Province. [6] [7] The Matsuo family was of samurai descent, and his father was probably a musokunin (無足人), a class of landowning peasants granted certain privileges of samurai.

  3. Reginald Horace Blyth - Wikipedia

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    The actual 5-volume Zen and Zen Classics series is a modification by the publishers, caused by the unexpected death of Blyth, of the originally planned 8-volume project, which included a translation of the Hekiganroku (Piyenchi), a History of Korean Zen and of Japanese Zen (Dogen, Hakuin etc.) and a renewed edition of his 'Buddhist Sermons on ...

  4. Haiga - Wikipedia

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    Matsuo Bashō, the great master of haiku, frequently painted as well. Haiga became a major style of painting as a result of association with his famous works of haiku. [citation needed] Like his poems, Bashō's paintings are founded in a simplicity which reveals great depth, complementing the poems they are paired with.

  5. Buddhism in the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    The Maha Bodhi Society's Zen circle was founded in October 1998. [38] Fo Guang Shan Manila is the main branch of the Fo Guang Shan Buddhist Order in the Philippines, which has several temples across the country. [39] Despite being located in Southeast Asia, the Theravāda school has but a marginal presence.

  6. Haiku in languages other than Japanese - Wikipedia

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    What some people call Estonian haiku (Estonian: Eesti haiku) is a form of poetry introduced in Estonia in 2009. [23] The so-called "Estonian haiku" is shorter than a Japanese one; the syllable count in Japanese haiku is 5+7+5, while Estonian haiku also goes in three lines but only comprises 4+6+4 syllables. Estonian authors claim that this is a ...

  7. Haiku - Wikipedia

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    Dejan Razić (1935–1985) published two books on haiku in 1979, The Development of Haikai Poetry from its Beginning to Basho, and The Peak of Haikai Poetry. The journal Haiku ran from 1977 to 1981. [64] The Haiku Marathon (1982) and the Yugoslav Haiku Competition (1985) were organised in the 1980s by Slavko Sedlar.

  8. Names of the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    The commission now recommends the use of Pilipinas over Filipinas when communicating in Filipino. [14] At international meetings, only the English name usually appears to identify the Philippines (e.g., when there are meetings in the United Nations or the Association of Southeast Asian Nations) in this setting. This is also the tradition even ...

  9. Filipino styles and honorifics - Wikipedia

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    [28] [29] Today, the term is still occasionally used to mean nobleman, but has mostly been adapted to other uses. In Filipino martial arts, it is equivalent to the black belt rank. [30] Beauty contests in the Philippines have taken to referring to the winner as lakambini, the female equivalent of lakan.