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Author: Helen Tworkov
Publisher: Kodansha
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 312
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis expanded edition of the highly acclaimed investigation of Zen teaching in America, by the founder and editor of America's first Buddhist magazine, lays bare the issues at the heart of the Zen mission. Through in-depth portraits of five American Zen masters, Tworkov creates a trenchant sociological picture of an important strand of American spiritual life. 27 photos.
Author: Ray McNiece
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 228
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is an essential collection of contemporary American Zen poetry from thrity poets whose work is shared through biographical statement, Zen statement, photo, and five or more poems each. It's a book that can help you awaken to your natural self.
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Publisher: Renaissance Books
Published: 2002-04-20
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781580632218
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne Bird, One Stone is a distinctly American take on the ancient tradition and practice of Zen Buddhism. Drawn from the archives of major Zen centers in America and interviews with some of the most seminal figures of American Zen, including Philip Kapleau, Bernie Glassman, and Walter Nowick, One Bird, One Stone presents the notable encounters between teachers and students, the moments of insight and wisdom, the quotable quotes, and the humor of Zen as it has flowered in America over the last hundred-plus years.
Author: Steve Odin
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1996-01-10
Total Pages: 502
ISBN-13: 1438414927
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe thesis of this work is that in both modern Japanese philosophy and American pragmatism there has been a paradigm shift from a monological concept of self as an isolated "I" to a dialogical concept of the social self as an "I-Thou relation," including a communication model of self as an individual-society interaction. It is also shown that for both traditions all aesthetic, moral, and religious values are a function of the social self arising through communicative interaction between the individual and society. However, at the same time this work critically examines major ideological conflicts arising between the social self theories of modern Japanese philosophy and American pragmatism with respect to such problems as individualism versus collectivism, freedom versus determinism, liberalism versus communitarianism, and relativism versus objectivism.
Author: Y. Ohta
Publisher: Y. Ohta
Published: 2009-12-14
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 1449560792
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSelected teachings of an American ZenjiTwitter: @AmzenbookBotFacebook: www.facebook.com/AmzenbookBot
Author: Janwillem van de Wetering
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: 2014-07-01
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 1466874678
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn A Glimpse of Nothingness, celebrated mystery novelist Janwillem van de Wetering offers a sequel to his earlier memoir, The Empty Mirror, which concerned the author's experiences at a Zen monastery in Japan in the middle 1960s. Originally published in 1975, A Glimpse of Nothingness chronicles van de Wetering's time at the Moon Springs Hermitage in Maine. The book offers a complete and compelling description of the Zen path pursued by one sensitive Westerner who began his quest by seeking for the sense of it all-and who eventually came to realize at least a part of it. The follow-up to this book is van de Wetering's Afterzen.
Author: Jiryu Mark Rutschman-Byler
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2010-01-09
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 055716821X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen a young American Buddhist monk can no longer bear the pop-psychology, sexual intrigue, and free-flowing peanut butter that he insists pollute his spiritual community, he sets out for Japan on an archetypal journey to find True Zen. Arriving at an austere Japanese monastery and meeting a fierce old Zen Master, he feels confirmed in his suspicion that the Western Buddhist approach is a spineless imitation of authentic spiritual effort. However, over the course of a year and a half of bitter initiations, relentless meditation and labor, intense cold, brutal discipline, insanity, overwhelming lust, and false breakthroughs, he grows disenchanted with the Asian model as well. Two Shores of Zen weaves together scenes from Japanese and American Zen to offer a timely, compelling contribution to the ongoing conversation about Western Buddhism's stark departures from Asian traditions. How far has Western Buddhism come from its roots, or indeed how far has it fallen? www.ShoresOfZen.com
Author: Steve Odin
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1996-01-01
Total Pages: 504
ISBN-13: 9780791424926
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first book on East-West comparative thought to critically analyze the Zen Buddhist model of self in modern Japanese philosophy from the standpoint of American pragmatism.
Author: David Chadwick
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Published: 2007-05-08
Total Pages: 474
ISBN-13: 0834826860
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDavid Chadwick, a Texas-raised wanderer, college dropout, bumbling social activist, and hobbyhorse musician, began his study under Shunryu Suzuki Roshi in 1966. In 1988 Chadwick flew to Japan to begin a four-year period of voluntary exile and remedial Zen education. In Thank You and OK! he recounts his experiences both inside and beyond the monastery walls and offers insightful portraits of the characters he knew in that world—the bickering monks, the patient abbot, the trotting housewives, the ominous insects, the bewildered bureaucrats, and the frustrating English-language students—as they worked inexorably toward initiating him into the mysterious ways of Japan. Whether you're interested in Japan, Buddhism, or exotic travel writing, this book is great fun. To learn more about the author, David Chadwick, visit www.cuke.com.
Author: Janica Anderson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2018-01-19
Total Pages: 383
ISBN-13: 1614292744
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplore two lives—and a relationship—that profoundly shaped American Zen. Ruth Fuller Sasaki and Sokei-an Shigetsu Sasaki: two pioneers of Zen in the West. Ruth was an American with a privileged life, even during the height of the Great Depression, before she went to Japan and met D. T. Suzuki. Sokei-an was one of the first Zen priests to come to America; he brought the gift of the Dharma to the United States but in 1942 was put in an internment camp. One made his way to the West and the other would find her way to the East, but together they created the First Zen Institute of America and helped birth a new generation of Zen practitioners: among them, Alan Watts, Gary Snyder, and Burton Watson. They were married less than a year before Sokei-an died, but Ruth would go on to helm trailblazing translations in his honor and to become the first foreigner to be the priest of a Rinzai Zen temple in Japan. With lyrical prose, authors Steven Schwartz and Janica Anderson bring Ruth and Sokei-an to life. Two dozen intimate photographs photos show us two people who aren’t mere historical figures, but flesh and blood people, walking their paths.
