A tribute album with 18 songs was released in 1991, featuring R.E.M., John Cale, Nick Cave, Ian McCulloch, Pixies, The House Of Love and Lloyd Cole among others. In 1996, Cohen was ordained as a Rinzai Zen Buddhist monk and took the Dharma name "Jikan", meaning "silence".ĭuring his lifetime he recorded 14 studio albums. Baldy Zen Center near Los Angeles, beginning what became five years of seclusion at the center. In 1967, Cohen moved to the United States to pursue a career as a folk musician. There he wrote another collection of poetry, Flowers for Hitler (1964), and two novels, The Favorite Game (1963) and Beautiful Losers (1966). After traveling throughout Europe, he settled on the Greek island of Hydra, where he stayed for seven years. His first collection of poetry, Let Us Compare Mythologies, was published in 1956, followed by The Spice Box of Earth in 1961. The father of Adam Cohen and Lorca Cohen. He was a Canadian poet, singer and songwriter. Leonard Cohen was born September 21,1934, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and died Novemin Los Angeles, California, USA.
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