Where Are You, Panda?
- Price:
- 1,500 yen (JPY)
- Author(s):
- Yokota Nanrei (text) and Yokoyama Yuka (illustrations)
- Language(s):
- Japanese
- Size:
- 175 × 150 × 7mm, 180 g
- Pages:
- 32
- Binding:
- hardcover
- Release date:
- 20221228
- ISBN:
- 978-4-86152-907-8 C0095
Realizing the wonderfulness of your own existence is the most important thing you can do: a picture book that conveys this Zen teaching in an easy and understandable way.
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Where are you, Panda?
At the zoo?
In an encyclopedia?
Or perhaps somewhere else?
Everyone is standing in line at the zoo, wanting to see the pandas that they love so much. Panda stands in line with them. But everyone says, “You’re a panda, so there is no reason for you to wait to see them,” and they push Panda out. Disappointed, Panda begins a journey to somehow become a panda . . .
This book uses simple language to convey how you and those around you can live a contented life.
Yokota Nanrei has served as chief abbot of the Engakuji temple of Rinzai Zen in Kamakura since 2010 and president of Hanazono University in Kyoto since 2017. Born in 1964 in Shingu, Wakayama Prefecture, he began training at Engakuji in 1991 and was appointed head priest of the monk’s hall in 1999. He has published numerous books, including Jinsei o terasu zen no kotoba (Zen Words to Enlighten Your Life; Chichi, 2016), Kokoro korokoro: Hagaki de okuru zen no kokoro (Movements of the Heart: Postcards of Zen Thoughts; Seigensha, 2017), Busshin no hito shizuku (A Single Drop of the Buddha’s Heart; Shunjusha, 2018), Busshin no naka o ayumu (Walking in the Heart of Buddha; Shunjusha, 2020), and Jugyuzu ni manabu (Learning from the Ten Bulls; Chichi, 2020). Where Are You, Panda? is his first picture book.
Yokoyama Yuka was born in 1980 in Aichi Prefecture. While at university, she met her future husband, the deputy chief abbot of Tokoji temple in Yokohama, part of the Myoshinji school of Rinzai Zen. She began creating illustrations for stickers to give to children at their zazen practice, which became popular for the simple way that they conveyed Buddhist teachings. She works as a speech therapist in addition to being an illustrator and has two children.