Vladislav Tsylyov

“The Song of the Idiot” is one of the paradoxical poems by R. M. Rilke (1875—1926), the greatest modernist poet of the 20th century. After reading this funny book, the reader will know what this poem has in common with Zen’s sense of nonsense. As the…

In this fantasy book, the outstanding twentieth-century poet R. M. Rilke (1875—1926) speaks with enlightened masters of non-doing about the most intimate thing, beauty. On the one hand, there are allusions to the Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch…

The poet Rilke and the Buddha Gautama — what do they have in common? Perhaps the dialogues of the outstanding lyricist of the twentieth century with the Awakened One will help to answer this question. Drawings by the graphic artist Olga Kopezky (1870…

This little book contains three thought-provoking etudes in which Rainier Maria Rilke, the preeminent poet of the 20th century, appears as… a Zen master. In conversation with Gautama Buddha and a Chan school patriarch, the poet reflects on the futili…