Hakuin's Song of Zazen
By Yamada Mumon Roshi
Foreword by D. T. Suzuki
Translated by Norman Waddell
By Yamada Mumon Roshi
Foreword by D. T. Suzuki
Translated by Norman Waddell
By Yamada Mumon Roshi
Foreword by D. T. Suzuki
Translated by Norman Waddell
By Yamada Mumon Roshi
Foreword by D. T. Suzuki
Translated by Norman Waddell
Category: Religion | Philosophy
Category: Religion | Philosophy
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$24.95
Feb 06, 2024 | ISBN 9781645471813
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Feb 06, 2024 | ISBN 9780834845497
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Praise
“Here we witness one of postwar Japan’s best-known Rinzai masters making an energetic effort to interest his compatriots in Zen. Yamada Mumon uses Hakuin Zenji’s famous doctrinal verse as a unifying strand for a series of brief essays that lay out in accessible terms some of his venerable tradition’s basic teachings. Writing in the 1950s for lay readers in a country reeling from decades of imperial warfare, subsequent devastation, and defeat, he addresses sundry news events, family life, ethical dilemmas, and the like. The book, expertly translated, is also a hand extended across the seas and the intervening decades—of all his writings, the one he most wanted Westerners to see.”
—Nelson Foster, author of Storehouse of Treasures
“This is a Buddhist leader grappling with the darkest shadow of his countrymen, and bringing the Pure Land to all, truly all: even to the shadows that, at the time, had only just begun to recede. Thanks to this and many other essays in this book Yamada Roshi remains one of the most important and engaging figures of post-war Japanese Buddhism. This book is not only about cultivating Dharma, crucial though that is. It is a window into the mind of a truly fascinating Buddhist clergyman.”
—Buddhistdoor Global
“A seminal study that is articulate, elegant, insightful, thoughtful and thought-provoking. . . . Very special and unreservedly recommended.”
—Midwest Book Review
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