Zen for Americans

Shaku, Soyen

ISBN 10: 1162621370 ISBN 13: 9781162621371

Verlag: Kessinger Publishing, 2010

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Reseña del editor:

1913. This little work is a collection of some of the lectures delivered by the Right Reverend Soyen Shaku during his sojourn in Japan. He lectured on the Sutra of Forty-two Chapters, and naturally chose the texts for his sermons from this most popular among the canonical books. Partial Contents: Sutra of forty-two chapters; God conception; assertions and denials; immortality; Buddhist faith and ethics; What is Buddhism? middle way; wheel of the good law; reply to a Christian critic; ignorance and enlightenment; practice of Dhyana; Buddhism and oriental culture; sacrifice for a stanza; Buddhist view of war.

Biografía del autor:

SOYEN SHAKU (1895-1919), a Japanese Zen monk, gave lectures on Buddhism in the United States in 1905 and 1906. D. T. SUZUKI (1870-1966) was a Buddhist scholar and a philosopher of religion who was instrumental in spreading Zen in the West. TAITETSU UNNO teaches Buddhism and Japanese religion at Smith College.

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• Verlag: Kessinger Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1162621370
• ISBN 13: 9781162621371
• Einband: Rústica
• Anzahl der Seiten: 228