Selected Works of D.T. Suzuki, Volume III

Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN:
  9780520269170
• eBook ISBN:
  9780520965355
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Buddhism

Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki was a key figure in the introduction of Buddhism to the non-Asian world. Many outside Japan encountered Buddhism for the first time through his writings and teaching, and for nearly a century his work and legacy have contributed to the ongoing religious and cultural interchange between Japan and the rest of the world, particularly the United States and Europe. This third volume of Selected Works of D. T. Suzuki brings together a diverse collection of Suzuki's letters, essays, and lectures about non-Buddhist religions and his thoughts on their relation to Buddhism, as well as his reflections on the nature of religion itself. Some of these writings have been translated into English for the first time in this volume. As a long-term resident of the United States, a world traveler, and a voracious consumer of information about all forms of religion, Suzuki was one of the foremost Japanese mediators of Eastern and Western religious cultures for nearly seven decades. An introduction by Jeff Wilson and Tomoe Moriya analyzes Suzuki's frequent encounters with texts and practitioners of many religions, considers how events in Suzuki's lifetime affected his interpretations of Christianity, Shinto, and other traditions, and demonstrates that his legacy as a scholar extends well beyond Buddhism.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Selected Works of D. T. Suzuki, Volume III
• Title
• Copyright
• CONTENTS
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Editorial Note
• 1. Letter to Paul Carus (1896)
• 2. Selections from Shin shūkyō ron (A New Interpretation of Religion)
• 3. Letter to Paul Carus (1897)
• 4. Christianity in Japan
• 5. Confucius: A Study of His Character and History
• 6. Selection from A Brief History of Early Chinese Philosophy
• 7. Selections from Suedenborugu (Swedenborg)
• 8. Zen, the Spiritual Heritage of the East
• 9. A Contemporary Buddhist View of Shinto
• 10. Swedenborg’s View of Heaven and “Other-Power”
• 11. Selection from Ignorance and World Fellowship
• 12. Zen and the Study of Confucianism (Selection from Zen and Its Influence on Japanese Culture)
• 13. What Is Religion?
• 14. Selections from Japanese Spirituality
• 15. Tea-Room Meditations
• 16. Selections from Essays in Zen Buddhism (First Series)
• 17. The Predicament of Modern Man
• 18. The Analytic and Synthetic Approach to Buddhism
• 19. The Answer Is in the Question
• 20. The Hands
• 21. Letter to Mr. Tatsuguchi
• 22. Review of Meditation and Piety in the Far East
• 23. Selections from Mysticism: Christian and Buddhist
• 24. Love and Power
• 25. Letter to Thomas Merton
• 26. Wisdom in Emptiness
• 27. Open Letter to President Kennedy and Premier Khrushchev
• 28. Buddhism and Other Religions
• 29. Religion and Drugs
• Notes
• Glossary of Chinese and Japanese Terms
• Bibliography
• Index