Description
Book SynopsisBrings 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.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction by Jeff Wilson and Tomoe Moriya
Editorial Note
1. Letter to Paul Carus (1896)
2. Selections from Shin shukyo 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
