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This study tries to make clear the relationship of Gary Snyder and Zen Buddhism and the characteristics of Snyder' Zen poems. His view of Zen Buddhism is different from that of Beat Generation writers such Allen Ginsberg, John Kerouac in that his Zen is formal and has been trained in Japan for about 10 years. His understanding of Zen Buddhism has some traits: firstly, he criticizes Western capitalistic culture in terms of Zen, and secondly he thinks Zen has some implications to contribute to a solution of environmental crisis and thirdly, he thinks human beings are equal with other animals in terms of their quality of life, and fourthly he emphasizes social participation and practice of Zen Buddhists. His Zen poems can be divided into two parts: Zen-theory poems and Zen-taste poems. While Zen-theory poems have a tendency to use concrete images, Zen-taste poems' characteristics are revealed in his objective description of things and of his everyday experience. The latter poems emphasize the emptying of mind and human being's immediate experience with other beings in nature, and suggest that human being is just one component of nature with other living beings, and must be modest. Finally His Zen-taste pursues the unity with nature.
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Zen poems, emptying of mind, objective observation
