Angkor Publishing House
The Angkor Publishing specializes in the topics Zen Buddhism and Samurai and also published fiction with country priorities such as Japan and Indonesia.
history
Due to the surprise success of Hagakure , a samurai adviser that appeared on the film Ghost Dog - The Way of the Samurai by Jim Jarmusch and was at number 1 in the Amazon sales charts, its translator Guido Keller founded Angkor Verlag in Frankfurt on in 2000 Main. The specialty in this context was the on-demand production, the book had no firm support and became the first bestseller of the manufacturer Books on Demand A 20-year long-scale publishing program should henceforth mainly classic Zen literature in the same production method until the make the distant future available to readers. The “Edition Nippon” appeared in the conventional offset process.
Program and authors
For Zen, the publishing house developed texts by the Japanese Zen master Sawaki Kōdō, in particular with the help of the German abbot Muhō Nölke . Another focus is the main works of Dōgen Zenji such as the Shōbōgenzō and Eihei Kôroku as well as essential sutras and Kôan collections, as well as philosophical works of martial arts and samurai (e.g. on Bushidō ). In addition to his own scientific work on the history and philosophy of martial arts, the Japanologist and Tai Chi teacher Julian Braun also publishes translations of classical Buddhological works by Takakusu Junjirō , Nanjō Bun'yū , Louis de La Vallée Poussin in Angkor Verlag. Japanese authors such as Natsume Sōseki , Yūichi Seirai , Kaori Ekuni , Uno Chiyo , Maruya Saiichi , Fukunaga Takehiko , Wahei Tatematsu , Taeko Tomioka and Hiroyuki Itsuki have appeared in the “Edition Nippon” since 2010 . As part of Indonesia's guest country appearance at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2015, Indonesian literature was published by Putu Wijaya, Ismail Marahimin, Iwan Simatupang, Seno Gumira Ajidarma and Hamsad Rangkuti.
Buddhist blog
The publisher Guido Keller is active as a blogger and negotiates not only factual topics but also contradictions in (Zen) Buddhism. As early as 2010, his investigative work helped to expose the abuse of power in a Vietnamese pagoda in Frankfurt, which Der Spiegel and other media did not pick up until 2018. The blog also accuses part of the German Zen scene of self-adulation with invented teaching titles.
Web links
- Publisher's website
- Publisher's Blog
- Literature by and about Angkor Verlag in the WorldCat bibliographic database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bernd Röthlingshöfer: Marketeasing. Berlin 2010 (p. 67) [1]
- ↑ Ursula Rautenberg, Volker title (ed.): Alles Buch. Erlangen 2004. (p. 37) [2]
- ↑ The Phat Hue pagoda and its abbot Thich Thien Son (alias Thay)
- ↑ Ann-Katrin Müller, Anna Sawerthal: Accusation of abuse against Zen masters in Hesse: Buddhas Irrweg . In: Der Spiegel . May 20, 2018 ( spiegel.de [accessed November 20, 2019]).
- ↑ The silence in the Buddha's way. Retrieved November 20, 2019 .