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One of the world's leading authorities on Zen Buddhism, D. T.
Suzuki was the author of more than a hundred works on the subject
in both Japanese and English, and was most instrumental in bringing
the teachings of Zen Buddhism to the attention of the Western
world. Written in a lively, accessible, and straightforward manner,
"An Introduction to Zen Buddhism" is illuminating for the serious
student and layperson alike. Suzuki provides a complete vision of
Zen, which emphasizes self-understanding and enlightenment through
many systems of philosophy, psychology, and ethics. With a foreword
by the renowned psychiatrist Dr. Carl Jung, this volume has been
generally acknowledged a classic introduction to the subject for
many years. It provides, along with Suzuki's "Essays" and "Manual
of Zen Buddhism," a framework for living a balanced and fulfilled
existence through Zen.
This annotated translation by Daisetz Suzuki (1870-1966) comprises
the first four of six chapters of the Kyogyoshinsho, the definitive
doctrinal work of Shinran (1173-1262). Shinran founded the Jodo
Shin sect of Pure Land Buddhism, now the largest religious
organization in Japan. Writing in Classical Chinese, Shinran began
this, his magnum opus, while in exile and spent the better part of
thirty years after his return to Kyoto revising the text. Although
unfinished, Suzuki's translation conveys the text's core religious
message, showing how Shinran offered a new understanding of faith
through studying teachings before engaging in praxis, rather than
the more common and far more limited view of faith in Buddhism as
relevant to one just beginning their pursuit of Buddhist truth.
Although Suzuki is best known for his scholarship on Zen Buddhism,
he took a lifelong interest in Pure Land Buddhism. Suzuki's own
religious perspective is evident in his translation of gyo as
''True Living'' rather than the expected ''Practice,'' and of sho
as ''True Realizing of the Pure Land'' rather than the expected
''Enlightenment'' or ''Confirmation.'' This book contains the
second edition of Suzuki's translation. It includes a number of
corrections to the original 1973 edition, long out of print, as
well as Suzuki's unfinished preface in its original form for the
first time.
Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki was a Japanese author of books and essays
on Buddhism, Zen and Shin that were instrumental in spreading
interest in both Zen and Shin (and Far Eastern philosophy in
general) to the West. Suzuki was also a prolific translator of
Chinese, Japanese, and Sanskrit literature. Suzuki spent several
lengthy stretches teaching or lecturing at Western universities,
and devoted many years to a professorship at Otani University, a
Japanese Buddhist school. Besides living in the United States,
Suzuki traveled through Europe before taking up a professorship
back in Japan. In 1911, Suzuki married Beatrice Erskine Lane, a
Radcliffe graduate and Theosophist with multiple contacts with the
Baha Faith both in America and in Japan. Later Suzuki himself
joined the Theosophical Society Adyar and was an active
Theosophist. While he was in Kyoto, he visited Dr. Hoseki Shinichi
Hisamatsu, a famous Zen Buddhist scholar, and discussed Zen
Buddhism together at Shunkoin temple in the Myoshinji temple
complex. In 1921 he and his wife, Beatrice, founded the Eastern
Buddhist Society; the Society is focused on Mahayana Buddhism and
offers lectures and seminars, and publishes a scholarly journal.
Besides teaching about Zen practice and the history of Zen (Chinese
Chan) Buddhism, Suzuki was an expert scholar on the related
philosophy called, in Japanese, Kegon, which he thought of as the
intellectual explication of Zen experience. In addition to his
popularly oriented works, Suzuki wrote a translation of the
Lankavatara Sutra and a commentary on its Sanskrit terminology. He
looked in on the efforts of Saburo Hasegawa, Judith Tyberg, Alan
Watts and the others who worked in the California Academy of Asian
Studies (now known as the California Institute of Integral
Studies), in San Francisco in the 1950s. Suzuki is often linked to
the Kyoto School of philosophy, but he is not considered one of its
official members. Suzuki took an interest in other traditions
besides Zen. His book Zen and Japanese Buddhism delved into the
history and scope of interest of all the major Japanese Buddhist
sects. In his later years, he began to explore the Jodo Shinshu
faith of his mother's upbringing, and gave guest lectures on Jodo
Shinshu Buddhism at the Buddhist Churches of America. D.T. Suzuki
also produced an incomplete English translation of the
Kyogyoshinsho, the magnum opus of Shinran, founder of the Jodo
Shinshu school. However, Suzuki did not attempt to popularize the
Shin doctrine in the West, as he believed Zen was better suited to
the Western preference for Eastern mysticism, though he is quoted
as saying that Jodo Shinshu Buddhism is the "most remarkable
development of Mahayana Buddhism ever achieved in East Asia."
Suzuki also took an interest in Christian mysticism and in some of
the most significant mystics of the West, for example, Meister
Eckhart, whom he compared with the Jodo Shinshu followers called
Myokonin. Suzuki was among the first to bring research on the
Myokonin to audiences outside Japan as well. Suzuki's books have
been widely read and commented on by many important figures. A
notable example is An Introduction to Zen Buddhism, which includes
a commentary by famous analytical psychologist Carl Jung. Other
works include Essays in Zen Buddhism, Studies in Zen Buddhism, and
Manual of Zen Buddhism. Additionally, American philosopher William
Barrett has compiled many of Suzuki's articles and essays
concerning Zen into a volume entitled Zen Buddhism." Suzuki
believed that the Far Eastern peoples had a more sensitive or
attuned to nature than either the people of Europe or those of
Northern India. Suzuki subscribed to the idea that religions are
each a sort of organism, an organism that is (through time) subject
to "irritation" and having a capacity to change or evolve.
Due to the very old age and scarcity of this book, many of the
pages may be hard to read due to the blurring of the original text.
This is a new release of the original 1959 edition.
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Studies in Zen (Paperback)
Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki; Edited by Christmas Humphreys
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R755
Discovery Miles 7 550
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This Is A New Release Of The Original 1913 Edition.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1906 Edition.
Contributing Authors Include Muhsin Mahdi, Charles Adams, Ellis
Rivkin, And Others.
2013 Reprint of 1955 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original
edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. This
collection of essays reprints seven articles or lectures written by
Suzuki beginning in 1906. The are: The Zen Sect of Buddhism Zen
Buddhism An Interpretation of Zen-Experience Reason and Intuition
in Buddhist Philosophy Zen: A Reply to Dr. Hu Shih Mondo The Role
of Nature in Zen Buddhism Index
This is a new release of the original 1959 edition.
Of Zen itself I need say nothing here, but the increasing sale of
books on the subject, such as The Spirit of Zen by Alan Watts
(Murray), and the series of original translations of Chinese Zen
Scriptures and other works published by the Buddhist Society prove
that the interest of the West is rising rapidly. Zen, however, is a
subject extremely easy to misunderstand, and it is therefore
important that the words of a qualified Master should come readily
to hand.
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