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TRANSMODERNITY Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World

ISSN 2154-1353

1 paper in the library · 1 citation · publishing 2018

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Mexico City, Koans, and the Zen Buddhist Master: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Ejo Takata and the Fundamental Lesson of the Death of the Intellect

TRANSMODERNITY Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World 2018 Ken Martin 1 citation

In Alejandro Jodorowsky’s autobiographical story El maestro y las magas (2006), the eclectic and esoteric artist spends a significant amount of time recounting his experience under the tutelage of Japanese Zen Buddhist monk Ejo Takata in Mexico City in the latter part of the 1960s into the early 1970s. Their relationship as master and disciple would be an important, if not foundational, part of...