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Awakening and Insight: Zen Buddhism and Psychotherapy

Book by Polly Young-Eisendrath, Shoji Muramoto; Brunner-Routledge, 2002

Subjects:

Buddhism--Psychology, Psychotherapy--Religious Aspects--Buddhism, Psychotherapy--Religious Aspects--Zen Buddhism

Collections: Religious Studies, Psychology, Entire Library

Since the 1990s, many efforts have been made to integrate Buddhism and its therapeutic ancestors in the West. Taking Japanese Zen Buddhism as its starting point, this title is a collection of critiques and histories of Buddhism.
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Essays in Zen Buddhism

Book by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki; Grove Press, 1961

Subjects:

Buddhism--China, Zen Buddhism

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

In this collection of his most important essays, Suzuki explores a variety of topics, including the history of Buddhism, the daily life of a Zen monk, and the path to enlightenment. At once a critical explication of the facets of Zen and a meditation on the meaning of existence, Essays in Zen ...
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In this collection of his most important essays, Suzuki explores a variety of topics, including the history of Buddhism, the daily life of a Zen monk, and the path to enlightenment. At once a critical explication of the facets of Zen and a meditation on the meaning of existence, Essays in Zen Buddhism is an indispensable document to the student of Eastern religion.
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Manual of Zen Buddhism

Book by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki; Grove Press, 1960

Subjects:

Buddhism--Sacred Books, Gods, Buddhist, Zen Buddhism

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Zenjin MANUAL OF ZEN BUDDHISM DAISETZ TEITARO...FROM THE CHINESE ZEN MASTERS 73...V. FROM THE JAPANESE ZEN MASTERS...characteristics of Chinese Buddhism of the Sung dynasty, when the Japanese Zen masters visited...
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Zen and Oriental Art

Book by Hugo Munsterberg; Charles E. Tuttle Publishing, 1965

Subjects:

Art, Buddhist, Art, Japanese, Zen Buddhism

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...neng in Japanese, Eno , who...call Chan or Zen Buddhism. A man of...or as the Japanese later called it, Zen Buddhism." 7 The...integral part of Japanese culture that...particularly Zen. In the Momoyama...1573-1615 , Buddhism began to decline...
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Eloquent Zen: Daito and Early Japanese Zen

Book by Kenneth Kraft; University of Hawaii Press, 1992

Subjects:

Myocho--1282-1337, Priests, Zen--Japan--Biography

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...forms of Sung Buddhism. 11 Rather...that Chan/Zen was conceived...experienced by the Japanese. DaitOs avoidance...first phase of Japanese Zen began in the...school of Sung Buddhism, and brought...congruence between Zen and older schools of Japanese Buddhism were recognized...

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Journal Articles on: japanese zen buddhism

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Zen Buddhism and Hasidism: A Comparative Study

Journal article by Richard B. Pilgrim; Journal of Ecumenical Studies, Vol. 34, 1997

Subjects:

Books--Reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...In Teshimas work, Hasidism and Zen Buddhism are juxtaposed in an academic analysis...Teshima is profiled (p. 189) as a "Japanese Christian," and Gorin shows considerable...authors Jewish heritage, and his Buddhism appears (explicitly) only occasionally...
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Opening a Mountain: Koans of the Zen Masters

Journal article by Eric Sean Nelson; Buddhist-Christian Studies, Vol. 24, 2004

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Opening a Mountain: Koans of the Zen Masters (Book)--Book reviews, The Koan: Texts and Contexts in Zen Buddhism (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...CONTEXTS IN ZEN BUDDHISM. Edited by Steven...2000. 322 pp. The Zen koan is mysterious...Sung China to later Japanese developments...and Contexts in Zen Buddhism collects significant...scholars of Chan and Zen Buddhism. The editors argue...
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Original Insights Never Fully Present: Chan/Zen/deconstruction

Journal article by Stuart Sargent; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 116, 1996

Subjects:

China--Religion, Japan--Religion, Zen Buddhism--Analysis

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...West and between Buddhism and Hinduism proposed...the body in Chan/Zen, which seems to...thinks that the Japanese and Chinese world-views...symbols in Chan and Zen have the same...so much so that Japanese variations on...Svastika in Soto Zen" (p. 200); and...in the use of Japanese pronunciations...
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Zen Master Dogen Meets a Thirteenth-Century Postmodernist

Journal article by Terry C. Muck; Journal of Ecumenical Studies, Vol. 35, 1998

Subjects:

Dogen--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Postmodernism--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Truth--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Zen Buddhism--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...translators give an excellent history of the Japanese text in the "Notes on the Translation...including Francis Cook, How to Raise an Ox: Zen Practice as Taught in Zen Master Dogens...captured the paradoxical teaching of Mahayana Buddhism (and especially the Wisdom Sutras) that...
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What Is the Zen Master Talking About?

Journal article by Stewart W. Holmes; ETC.: A Review of General Semantics, Vol. 50, 1993

Subjects:

Religion--Quotations, Zen Buddhism--Analysis

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...familiar to them what this Zen-trained Japanese person meant? Which senses or what observations...Here are some more statements from Zen Mind, Beginners Mind that will provide...the word "enlightenment" in books about Buddhism. The COIK principle warns us against...

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Magazine Articles on: japanese zen buddhism

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An Interdependent Web: Interview with James Ishmael Ford

Magazine article by Kenneth Arnold; Cross Currents, Vol. 52, Spring 2002

Subjects:

Buddhists--Interviews, Clergy--Interviews, Ford, James Ishmael--Interviews, Zen Buddhism--Study and teaching

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...this is two or three years after I began Zen practice. When I first began, I was simply...began formal monastic training in the Japanese style. When she returned, I was ordained...question of celibacy. Ordained leadership in Buddhism has been monastic and while the precepts...
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Soji-Ji

Magazine article by John Lowe; American Scholar, Vol. 70, Winter 2001

Subjects:

Buddhism, Monasteries--Description and travel, Monastic and religious life--Personal narratives, Monastic life--Personal narratives, Religious life, Religious life--Buddhism, Zen Buddhism--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...I knew there were Zen temples, particularly...wanted to stay in a Japanese training monastery...sitting on floors. Most Japanese Zen masters insist on...explained in halting Japanese that this was my first day of practicing Zen; that I was half...
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The Circle of the Way: Reading the Gospel of Thomas as a ChristZen Text

Magazine article by Kenneth Arnold; Cross Currents, Vol. 51, Winter 2002

Subjects:

Gnosticism--Literature, Gospel of Thomas (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jesus Christ--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Koan--Appreciation, Zen Buddhism--Appreciation

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...rewrote the history of Buddhism in China according...protectors of dogma in Zen. There is a process...97). The great Japanese master Eihei Dogen...and Contexts in Zen Buddhism. New York: Oxford...and Contexts in Zen Buddhism. New York: Oxford...
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Zen at War

Magazine article by David Chadwick; Whole Earth, Spring 1998

Subjects:

Books--Reviews, Zen at War (Book)--Reviews

Collections: Entire Library

...militarism, Imperial Buddhism, and fascism from...and lesser-known Japanese Buddhists, stories...the new corporate Zen. The author is a...Suzuki claimed that "Buddhism ... in its varied...activities." Yet in Japan, Zen had "passively sustained...Kannon or Kanzewon in Japanese) was transformed...
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A Zen Retreat

Magazine article by Robert F. Drinan; Commonweal, Vol. 129, January 11, 2002

Subjects:

Buddhism--Philosophy, Retreats--Personal narratives

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Japan. He is professor of Japanese and theology at Saint...written two books on Zen addressed to Christians...retreat integrated with Zen Buddhism looks "trendy" and is...There are many things in Zen Buddhism which are baffling, contradictory...

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Newspaper Articles on: japanese zen buddhism

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Zen, and the Art of Calligraphy; Combined Exhibit at Sackler Gallery

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 3, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...significant early Japanese gilt bronze figures...later written by Zen Buddhist monks are...many meanings in Zen Buddhism. It was also believed...regarded by Edo-period, Japanese Buddhists as the Indian monk who brought Buddhism to Japan. He was also revered as the first Zen patriarch to meditate...
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Old Kirk Finds New Life in the Land of Zen

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), October 25, 1996

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...dismayed a `landmark with happy memories for a lot of folk was going. Flats are to be built on the site. Zen Buddhism, a Japanese school of 12th-century Chinese origin, teaches that contemplation of ones essential nature to the exclusion of...
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A Post-Soviet Tale, with Zen

Newspaper article by Carol Herman; The Washington Times, May 7, 2000

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...frightening hara-kiri sequence with Japanese industrialists and a long meditation on Buddhism. Russias future, according to one...one can note that Mr. Pelevin chooses Zen with Chapaev in the role of a Zen master, and Annas machine gun, as the...
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Buddhism

Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, February 17, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...the cultures of Asia, whether Indian, Japanese, Sri Lankan, Burmese , or others. It has...the Being. As John Paul II analyses it, Buddhism is good in so far as it is human effort...mental discipline that has developed into Zen meditation. "Karma" is the moral principle...
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Rocks Reveal Japanese Master

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, February 11, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...stillness and beauty of Japanese gardens is one aspect...during that time when Zen Buddhism, with its emphasis on...this case is a round Japanese roof tile lodged among...of gray and parts of Japanese roof tiles are laid out...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: japanese zen buddhism

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Zen Buddhism

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...enlightenment or Buddha-nature. The austere discipline and practical approach of Zen made it the Buddhism of the medieval Japanese military class. Zen monks occupied positions of political influence and became active in literary and artistic life...
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Buddhism

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...in Translations (1896, repr. 1963); D. T. Suzuki, Zen Buddhism (1956); A. Wright, Buddhism in Chinese History (1959...2d ed. 1974); D. and A. Matsunaga, Foundations of Japanese Buddhism (1974 76); S. J. Tambiah, World Conqueror...
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Japanese Architecture

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...open porch and lofty central roof. The emergence of Zen Buddhism coincided with a renewed interest in Chinese architecture during the 13th cent. The plan of the Japanese temple adhered to the symmetrical simplicity of Chinese...
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Japanese Art

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...introduction of Buddhism in the 6th cent...Throughout its history Japanese art has relied heavily...ink painting. The Zen sect of Buddhism, which enjoyed a...means of teaching Zen doctrine. Such priest-painters...most revered of Japanese landscapists. Their...
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Suzuki, Daisetz Teitaro

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...many works are Essays in Zen Buddhism (3 vol., 1927 33), The Training of the Buddhist Monk (1934), Zen Buddhism and Its Influence on Japanese Culture (1938, rev. ed. 1959), An Introduction to Zen Buddhism (1949), and Mysticism: Christian...

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