Beyond Zen

D. T. Suzuki and the Modern Transformation of Buddhism

John Breen, Fumihiko Sueki, Shōji Yamada, John Breen, Fumihiko Sueki, Shōji Yamada

• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Year: 2022
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9780824892210
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Japanese History

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Table of contents

• Contents
• Preface
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• PART I D. T. Suzuki at the Turn of the Century (c. 1890–c. 1920)
• CHAPTER ONE From Postpantheism to Transmaterialism: D. T. Suzuki and New Buddhism
• CHAPTER TWO Suzuki Daisetz Attempts a Mahāyāna Protestant Buddhism: Outlines of Mahayana Buddhism as True Religion
• PART II D. T. Suzuki in the Interwar Years (c. 1920–c. 1941)
• CHAPTER THREE The Suzuki Contribution to the Anglophone Press of Interwar Japan
• CHAPTER FOUR Was D. T. Suzuki a Nazi Sympathizer?
• CHAPTER FIVE D. T. Suzuki and the Welfare of Animals
• PART III D. T. Suzuki during and after the War (c. 1941–c. 1946)
• CHAPTER SIX D. T. Suzuki and the Two Cranes: American Philanthropy and Suzuki’s Global Agenda
• CHAPTER SEVEN Transnationalizing Spirituality: D. T. Suzuki’s Zen Textuality
• CHAPTER EIGHT How to Read D. T. Suzuki? The Notion of “Person”
• COLUMN 1 Suzuki Daisetsu, Spirituality, and the Problem of Shinto
• PART IV Postwar D. T. Suzuki (c. 1946–c. 2000)
• CHAPTER NINE Suzuki Daisetz’ “Spiritual Japan” and Buddhist War Responsibility: An Alternative History of the Allied Occupation of Japan, 1945–1952
• CHAPTER TEN D. T. Suzuki’s Theory of Inspiration and the Challenges of Cross-Cultural Transmission
• CHAPTER ELEVEN D. T. Suzuki’s Literary Influence: Utopian Narrative in American and European Memoirs of Zen Life
• COLUMN 2 D. T. Suzuki and American Popular Culture
• Bibliography
• Contributors
• Index