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Book SynopsisExplores the tensions between competing cultures, generations, and beliefs in Japan during the years following World War II, through the lens of one of its best known figures and one of its most forgotten - Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki, a prolific scholar and translator of Buddhism, Zen, and Chinese and Japanese philosophy and religious history.
Table of Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Hidden Origins
- The Adopted Child
- Daisetz’s Parents
- Zen Training
- Bottom of the Heap
- Daisetz’s Image of Women
- Daisetz’s Marriage
- Beatrice and Okono
- Alan in the “Daisetz Dairies”
- Daisetz’s Dependant Family
- The Juvenile Delinquent
- A Prison Without Bars
- Daisetz’s Fears
- Daisetz’s Philosophy of Education
- A Parent’s Hope
- Alan Goes Wild
- Womanizing Rears Its Head
- Daisetz’s Views on Sexual Desire
- “Confinement” on Mt. Koya
- Repeated Offenses
- Glimpses of Brilliance
- Japan-America Students Conference
- Alan Discusses Zen
- A Novelist’s Misunderstanding
- Alan’s Second Japan-America Students Conference
- Alan Discusses Japaneseness
- Daisetz’s Indifference
- Two Red Threads of Fate
- Beatrice’s Health Takes a Turn for the Worse
- A Man with Many Loves
- Hidden Facts
- A Mother's Death
- Daisetz’s Mourning
- First Marriage
- To Shanghai
- Tokyo Boogie-woogie
- Shanghai
- Reunion with Ike Mariko
- “Tokyo Boogie-woogie” Is Born
- Second Marriage
- Alan’s Drinking
- The Meeting with a Psychiatrist
- A Sudden Parting
- Daisetz’s Anxiety
- Daisetz and the Beat Generation
- American “Comrades”
- The Basis of Transcendentalism
- Early Preaching
- Zen in English
- Art Encounters Zen
- The Birth of the Beat Generation
- Recognition of Daisetzu Increases
- A Change in the Life of the Great Scholar
- San Francisco Renaissance
- Daisetz’s Big Break
- On the Road
- America’s Dharma Year
- The Context of the Chicago Review Zen Special Issue
- The Dharma Bums
- A Once-in-a-lifetime Conversation
- The Beats and Zen: Parting of the Ways
- The Undutiful Son
- Alan During the 1950s
- Daisetz Returns Home
- The Incident
- Alan’s Loneliness
- Branded as an “Undutiful Son”
- The Death of Daisetz
- Reconsidering the Parent-Child Relationship
- Great Wisdom and Great Compassion
- Father and Son
- Bibliography
- Appendix 1: Family Tree
- Appendix 2: Map of Kyoto
- Appendix 3: Chronology
- Index
