Manual Of Zen Buddhism

Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki

• Publisher: Youcanprint
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN:
  9788892657632
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Buddhism

Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, D.Litt., Professor of Buddhist Philosophy in the Otani University, Kyoto, was born in 1870. He is probably now the greatest living authority on Buddhist philosophy, and is certainly the greatest authority on Zen Buddhism. His major works in English on the subject of Buddhism number a dozen or more, and of his works in Japanese as yet unknown to the West there are at least eighteen. He is, moreover, as a chronological bibliography of books on Zen in English clearly shows, the pioneer teacher of the subject outside Japan, for except for Kaiten Nukariya's Religion of the Samurai (Luzac and Co., 1913) nothing was known of Zen as a living experience, save to the readers of The Eastern Buddhist (1921-1939), until the publication of Essays in Zen Buddhism (Volume I) in 1927. Dr. Suzuki writes with authority. Not only has he studied original works in Sanskrit, Pali, Chinese and Japanese, but he has an up-to-date knowledge of Western thought in German and French as well as in the English which he speaks and writes so fluently. He is, moreover, more than a scholar; he is a Buddhist.

Table of contents

• EDITOR'S FOREWORD TO SECOND EDITION
• EDITOR'S NOTE TO SECOND EDITION
• PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION
• I. GATHAS AND PRAYERS
• 2 CONFESSION
• 3 THE THREEFOLD REFUGE
• 4 THE FOUR GREAT VOWS
• 5 THE WORSHIPPING OF THE SARIRA
• 6 THE TEACHING OF THE SEVEN BUDDHAS
• 7 THE GATHA OF IMPERMANENCE
• 8 THE YEMMEI KWANNON TEN-CLAUSE SUTRA
• 9 PRAYER ON THE OCCASION OF FEEDING THE HUNGRY GHOSTS
• 10 GENERAL PRAYER
• 11 PRAYER OF THE BELL
• 12 THE DHARANIS
• II. THE DHARANIS
• 2 DHARANI OF THE GREAT COMPASSIONATE ONE
• 3 DHARANI OF THE VICTORIOUS BUDDHACROWN
• III. THE SUTRAS
• 2 THE KWANNON SUTRA1
• 3 THE KONGOKYO OR DIAMOND SUTRA
• 4 THE LANKAVATARA SUTRA
• 5 THE RYOGONKYO, OR SURANGAMA SUTRA
• 4. FROM THE CHINESE ZEN MASTERS
• IV. FROM THE CHINESE ZEN MASTERS
• 2 ON BELIEVING IN MIND (SHINJIN-NO-MEI)1
• 3 FROM HUI-NENG'S TAN-CHING
• 4 YOKA DAISHI'S "SONG OF ENLIGHTENMENT"
• 5 BASO (MA-TSU) AND SEKITO (SHIH-T'OU), TWO GREAT MASTERS OF THE T'ANG DYNASTY
• 6 HUANG-PO'S SERMON, FROM "TREATISE ON THE ESSENTIALS OF THE TRANSMISSION OF MIND" (DENSHIN HOYO)
• 7 GENSHA ON THE: THREE INVALIDS
• 8 THE TEN OXHERDING PICTURES
• V. FROM THE JAPANESE ZEN MASTERS
• 2 DAI-O KOKUSHI'S ADMONITION
• 3 DAITO KOKUSHI'S ADMONITION
• 4 KWANZAN KOKUSHI'S ADMONITION
• 5 MUSO KOKUSHI'S ADMONITION
• 6 HAKUIN'S "SONG OF MEDITATION"
• VI. THE BUDDHIST STATUES AND PICTURES IN A ZEN MONASTERY
• 2 THE BODHISATTVAS
• 3 THE ARHATS
• 4 THE PROTECTING GODS
• 5 SOME OF THE HISTORICAL FIGURES