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Zen and Japanese Culture is a classic that has influenced
generations of readers and played a major role in shaping
conceptions of Zen's influence on Japanese traditional arts. In
simple and poetic language, Daisetz Suzuki describes Zen and its
historical evolution. He connects Zen to the philosophy of the
samurai, and subtly portrays the relationship between Zen and
swordsmanship, haiku, tea ceremonies, and the Japanese love of
nature. Suzuki uses anecdotes, poetry, and illustrations of silk
screens, calligraphy, and architecture. The book features an
introduction by Richard Jaffe that acquaints readers with Suzuki's
life and career and analyzes the book's reception in light of
contemporary criticism, especially by scholars of Japanese
Buddhism. Zen and Japanese Culture is a valuable source for those
wishing to understand Zen in the context of Japanese life and art,
and remains one of the leading works on the subject.
Though fascinated with the land of their tradition's birth,
virtually no Japanese Buddhists visited the Indian subcontinent
before the nineteenth century. In the richly illustrated Seeking
Sakyamuni, Richard M. Jaffe reveals the experiences of the first
Japanese Buddhists who traveled to South Asia in search of Buddhist
knowledge beginning in 1873. Analyzing the impact of these voyages
on Japanese conceptions of Buddhism, he argues that South Asia
developed into a pivotal nexus for the development of
twentieth-century Japanese Buddhism. Jaffe shows that Japan's
growing economic ties to the subcontinent following World War I
fostered even more Japanese pilgrimage and study at Buddhism's
foundational sites. Tracking the Japanese travelers who returned
home, as well as South Asians who visited Japan, Jaffe describes
how the resulting flows of knowledge, personal connections,
linguistic expertise, and material artifacts of South and Southeast
Asian Buddhism instantiated the growing popular consciousness of
Buddhism as a pan-Asian tradition--in the heart of Japan.
Daisetsu Teitar Suzuki was a key figure in the introduction of
Buddhism to the non-Asian world. Many outside Japan encountered
Buddhism for the first time through his writings and teaching, and
for nearly a century his work and legacy have contributed to the
ongoing religious and cultural interchange between Japan and the
rest of the world, particularly the United States and Europe. This
fourth volume of Selected Works of D. T. Suzuki brings together a
range of Suzuki's writings in the area of Buddhist studies. Based
on his text-critical work in the Chinese canon, these essays
reflect his commitment to clarifying Mahayana Buddhist doctrines in
Indian, Chinese, and Japanese historical contexts. Many of these
innovative writings reflect Buddhological discourse in contemporary
Japan and the West's pre-war ignorance of Mahayana thought.
Included is a translation into English for the first time of his
"Mahayana Was Not Preached by Buddha." In addition to editing the
essays and contributing the translation, Mark L. Blum presents an
introduction that examines how Suzuki understood Mahayana discourse
via Chinese sources and analyzes his problematic use of Sanskrit.
Though fascinated with the land of their tradition's birth,
virtually no Japanese Buddhists visited the Indian subcontinent
before the nineteenth century. In the richly illustrated Seeking
Sakyamuni, Richard M. Jaffe reveals the experiences of the first
Japanese Buddhists who traveled to South Asia in search of Buddhist
knowledge beginning in 1873. Analyzing the impact of these voyages
on Japanese conceptions of Buddhism, he argues that South Asia
developed into a pivotal nexus for the development of
twentieth-century Japanese Buddhism. Jaffe shows that Japan's
growing economic ties to the subcontinent following World War I
fostered even more Japanese pilgrimage and study at Buddhism's
foundational sites. Tracking the Japanese travelers who returned
home, as well as South Asians who visited Japan, Jaffe describes
how the resulting flows of knowledge, personal connections,
linguistic expertise, and material artifacts of South and Southeast
Asian Buddhism instantiated the growing popular consciousness of
Buddhism as a pan-Asian tradition--in the heart of Japan.
Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki is considered a key figure in the
introduction of Buddhism to the non-Asian world. Many in the West
encountered Buddhism for the very first time through his writings
and teaching, and for nearly a century his work and legacy have
contributed to the ongoing religious and cultural interchange
between Japan and the rest of the world.
Volume 2 of the collected works of D.T. Suzuki brings together his
writings on Pure Land Buddhism. Suzuki had a long and abiding
interest in this strand of Buddhism, particularly Japanese Shin
Buddhism, which he wrote about frequently throughout his life. At
the center of the Pure Land tradition is the Buddha Amida and his
miraculous, transcendent realm known as the paradise or "land of
bliss," where sentient beings should aspire to be born in their
next life and where liberation and enlightenment are assured to
all. Suzuki, by highlighting certain themes in Pure Land Buddhism
and de-emphasizing others, shifted its focus from a future,
otherworldly goal to religious experience in the present, wherein
one realizes the non-duality between the Buddha and oneself and
between the paradise and this world. His cogent, distinctive, and
thought-provoking interpretations helped to stimulate new
understandings of Pure Land Buddhism quite different from
traditional doctrine.
Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki was a key figure in the introduction of
Buddhism to the non-Asian world. Many outside Japan encountered
Buddhism for the first time through his writings and teaching, and
for nearly a century his work and legacy have contributed to the
ongoing religious and cultural interchange between Japan and the
rest of the world, particularly the United States and Europe. This
third volume of Selected Works of D. T. Suzuki brings together a
diverse collection of Suzuki's letters, essays, and lectures about
non-Buddhist religions and his thoughts on their relation to
Buddhism, as well as his reflections on the nature of religion
itself. Some of these writings have been translated into English
for the first time in this volume. As a long-term resident of the
United States, a world traveller, and a voracious consumer of
information about all forms of religion, Suzuki was one of the
foremost Japanese mediators of Eastern and Western religious
cultures for nearly seven decades. An introduction by Jeff Wilson
and Tomoe Moriya analyzes Suzuki's frequent encounters with texts
and practitioners of many religions, considers how events in
Suzuki's lifetime affected his interpretations of Christianity,
Shinto, and other traditions, and demonstrates that his legacy as a
scholar extends well beyond Buddhism.
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