The Religion of the Samurai: A Study of Zen Philosophy and Discipline in China and Japan
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| Rating | : | 4.76 (691 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 159605770X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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Disapointed Dave said a complete history of zen and an excellent piece of reference material for anyone interested in knowing how it evolved and why. I love this book. It details the entire history of zen. Where it comes from and all its twists and turns along the way. I really enjoyed it, so much so that I purchased the hardcopy after reading the kindle edition.
. KAITEN NUKARIYA was a professor at Kei-o-gi-jiku University and So-to-shu Buddhist College, Tokyo
About the Author KAITEN NUKARIYA was a professor at Kei-o-gi-jiku University and So-to-shu Buddhist College, Tokyo.
KAITEN NUKARIYA was a professor at Kei-o-gi-jiku University and So-to-shu Buddhist College, Tokyo.. Thus he is in a state of moral poverty, entirely forgetting the precious gem of Buddha-nature within him. Now the question arises, If all human beings are endowed with Buddha-nature, why have they not come naturally to be Enlightened? To answer this question, the Indian Mahayanists told the parable of the drunkard who forgets the precious gems put in his own pocket by one of his friends. Ardently spiritual and beautifully reflective, this splendid book will be treasured by all seekers of the divine. The man is drunk with the poisonous liquor of selfishness, led astray by the alluring sight of the sensual objects, and goes mad with anger, lust, and folly. -from "The Nature of Man" There are, unknown to many Western minds, two schools of Buddhist thought: the Theravada, the one Westerners are generally more familiar with, and the Mahayanistic, or Zen, philosophy, which is still a great mystery even to occidental explorers of world religions. This 1913 book, one of the first works on Zen written in the English l