Losar Message from Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche
For those of us who have the privilege and good fortune to have time even to think about Losar, I offer my prayers and aspirations that this Dragon Year will not completely throw us off balance.
Snow Country (1948)
“This—‘The white of the snow fell away into the darkness some distance before it reached them.’—That’s just … Yasunari Kawabata, you know, so in the moment. And this novel is quite … I think I’ve talked about this before, but I’m talking about it again, and I guess I’ll talk about it again because I love this so much. One of the best. Because it really … I don’t know, there’s something so magical, something so descriptive—of course descriptive—magical, something so now, here, but there’s a sort of undercurrent of sadness.”
Snow Country (Japanese: 雪国 Yukiguni) is a novel by the Japanese author Yasunari Kawabata (1899–1972). The novel is considered a classic work of Japanese literature and was among the three novels the Nobel Committee cited in 1968, when Kawabata was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Snow Country is a stark tale of a love affair between a Tokyo dilettante and a provincial geisha that takes place in a remote hot spring (onsen) town in western Japan.
