Japanese Death Poems (Softcover) 1 left Buddhism he was the winner of

he was the winner of the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize

Puja Lantern - for votive candle (one included)

Rakta or Raktachandana

Sandalwood smells somewhat like other wood scents

Compiled more than two thousand years ago by a mysterious warrior-philosopher

Japanese Death Poems (Softcover) 1 left Buddhism he was the winner ofJapanese Death Poems (Softcover): Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death. Compiled by Yoel Hoffmann. These death poems reflect important aspects of Japanese culture still largely unfamiliar to many Western readers. In Japan, the approach of death has occasionally been a time for poets to observe a centuries old tradition of writing jisei, or the "death poem", often written in the very last moments of the poet's life. Hoffman