Japanese Rinzai Zen Buddhism

Author : Jørn Borup
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047433092
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Japanese Rinzai Zen Buddhism written by Jørn Borup and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-02-28 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japanese Rinzai Zen Buddhism gives a new perspective on contemporary Japanese Zen Buddhism. Ideas, ritual practices, temples and interactions between the clergy, the laity and the institution are investigated as living representations of a unique and yet common Japanese religion.

Author : J2rn Borup
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004165576
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Japanese Rinzai Zen Buddhism written by J2rn Borup and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Japanese Rinzai Zen Buddhism" gives a new perspective on contemporary Japanese Zen Buddhism. Ideas, ritual practices, temples and interactions between the clergy, the laity and the institution are investigated as living representations of a unique and yet common Japanese religion.

Author : Martin Collcutt
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684172179
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Five Mountains written by Martin Collcutt and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work provides an in-depth history of the Rinzai Zen monastic institution in Medieval Japan. Contents include chapters on Japanese zen pioneers and their patrons; Chinese émigré monks and Japanese warrior rullers; the gozan system; Zen monastic life and rules; the monastery and its subtemples; and the Zen monastic economy. Includes a foreword by Edwin Reischauer.

Author : Conrad Hyers
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1592444962
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Once-Born, Twice-Born Zen written by Conrad Hyers and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2004-01-26 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Once-Born, Twice-Born Zen' is a fresh treatment of the two major Zen schools of Japan. Its biographical and comparative approach is both original and very readable. The use of William James' typology, along with other phenomenological categories, provides the reader with helpful handles for distinguishing the schools, as well as similar tendencies in other religious traditions. The book should make an excellent text for introductory and middle-level courses in which one is trying to get students to develop categories for understanding religious experience and behavior. Readers will see something of themselves in the range of biographical examples given, and will detect their own tendencies through the use of this method. -- Bardwell Smith

Author : Meido Moore
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 083484141X
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rinzai Zen Way written by Meido Moore and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first accessible beginner's guide to Rinzai Zen practice. The recognition of the true nature of oneself and the universe is the aim of Rinzai Zen—but that experience, known as kensho, is really just the beginning of a life of refining that discovery and putting it into practice in the world. Rinzai, with its famed discipline and its emphasis on koan practice, is one of two main forms of Zen practiced in the West, but it is less familiar than the more prominent Soto school. Meido Moore here remedies that situation by providing this compact and complete introduction to Zen philosophy and practice from the Rinzai perspective. It’s an excellent entrée to a venerable tradition that goes back through the renowned Hakuin Ekaku in eighteenth-century Japan to its origins in Tang dynasty China—and that offers a path to living with insight and compassion for people today.

Author : Brian Daizen Victoria
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1461647479
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zen at War written by Brian Daizen Victoria and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2006-06-22 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling history of the contradictory, often militaristic, role of Zen Buddhism, this book meticulously documents the close and previously unknown support of a supposedly peaceful religion for Japanese militarism throughout World War II. Drawing on the writings and speeches of leading Zen masters and scholars, Brian Victoria shows that Zen served as a powerful foundation for the fanatical and suicidal spirit displayed by the imperial Japanese military. At the same time, the author recounts the dramatic and tragic stories of the handful of Buddhist organizations and individuals that dared to oppose Japan's march to war. He follows this history up through recent apologies by several Zen sects for their support of the war and the way support for militarism was transformed into 'corporate Zen' in postwar Japan. The second edition includes a substantive new chapter on the roots of Zen militarism and an epilogue that explores the potentially volatile mix of religion and war. With the increasing interest in Buddhism in the West, this book is as timely as it is certain to be controversial.

Author : Omori Sogen
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462921574
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Introduction to Zen Training written by Omori Sogen and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction to Zen Training is a translation of the Sanzen Nyumon, a foundational text for beginning meditation students by Omori Sogen--one of the foremost Zen teachers of the twentieth century. This book addresses many of the questions which arise when someone first embarks on a journey of Zen meditation--ranging from how long to sit at one time to how to remain mindful when not sitting--and it concludes with commentaries on two other fundamental Zen texts, Zazen Wasen (The Song of Meditation) and the Ox-Herding Pictures. Written to provide a solid grounding in the physical nature of Zen meditation training, this text delves into topics such as: Breathing Pain Posture Physiology Drowsiness How to find the right teacher The differences between the two main Japanese schools of Zen: Soto and Rinzai Zen As a master swordsman, Omori Sogen's approach to Zen is direct, physical, and informed by the rigorous tradition of Zen and the martial arts that flourished during Japan's samurai era. For him, the real aim of Zen is nothing short of Enlightenment--and Introduction to Zen Training is a roadmap in which he deals as adeptly with hundreds of years of Zen scholarship as he does with the mundane practicalities of meditation. Sogen prescribes a level of rigor and intensity in spiritual training that goes far beyond wellness and relaxation, and that is rarely encountered. His is a kind of spiritual warriorship he felt was direly needed in the middle of the twentieth century and that is no less necessary today. With a new foreword from Daihonzan Chozen-ji, the headquarters Zen temple established by Omori Sogen in Hawaii, this book is an essential text for every student of Zen meditation.

Author : Martin Collcutt
Publisher : Harvard Univ Asia Center
ISBN 13 : 9780674304987
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Five Mountains written by Martin Collcutt and published by Harvard Univ Asia Center. This book was released on 1981 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work provides a history of the Rinzai Zen monastic institution in Medieval Japan.

Author : Ursula Jarand
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692864371
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Infinite Ocean written by Ursula Jarand and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ursula Jarand, a long-time student of the late Japanese Rinzai Zen Master Soko Morinaga Roshi, is a teacher at Daishu-in West, a Northern California Rinzai Zen Buddhist temple she helped found in 1994. This book is a collection of selected talks she gave at Daishu-in West between 2004 and 2016.

Author : Victor Sogen Hori
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824865677
Total Pages : 785 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zen Sand written by Victor Sogen Hori and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2003-02-28 with total page 785 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zen Sand is a classic collection of verses aimed at aiding practitioners of kôan meditation to negotiate the difficult relationship between insight and language. As such it represents a major contribution to both Western Zen practice and English-language Zen scholarship. In Japan the traditional Rinzai Zen kôan curriculum includes the use of jakugo, or "capping phrases." Once a monk has successfully replied to a kôan, the Zen master orders the search for a classical verse to express the monk’s insight into the kôan. Special collections of these jakugo were compiled as handbooks to aid in that search. Until now, Zen students in the West, lacking this important resource, have been severely limited in carrying out this practice. Zen Sand combines and translates two standard jakugo handbooks and opens the way for incorporating this important tradition fully into Western Zen practice. For the scholar, Zen Sand provides a detailed description of the jakugo practice and its place in the overall kôan curriculum, as well as a brief history of the Zen phrase book. This volume also contributes to the understanding of East Asian culture in a broader sense.