Research Catalog

Title

Zen masters of Japan : the second step East / Richard Bryan McDaniel.

Author

McDaniel, Richard Bryan.

Publication

North Clarendon, VT : Tuttle Publishing, 2013.

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Details

Description

317 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Summary

"Zen Masters of Japan is the second book in a series that traces Zen's profoundly historic journey as it spread eastward from China and Japan, toward the United States. Following Zen Masters of China, this book concentrates on Zen's significant passage through Japan. More specifically, it describes the lineage of the great teachers, the Pioneers who set out to enlighten an island ready for an inner transformation based on compassionate awareness. While the existing Buddhist establishment in Japan met early Zen pioneers like Dogen and Eisai with fervent resistance, Zen Buddhism ultimately perservered and continued to become further transformed in its passage through Japan. The Japanese culture and Japanese Buddhism practices further deepened and strengthened Zen training by combining it with a variety of esoteric contemplative arts--the arts of poetry, the tea ceremony, calligraphy, and archery. Zen Masters of Japan chronicles this journey, and shows how the new practices soon gained in popularity among all walks of life--from the lowly peasant, offering a hope of reincarnation and a better life; to the Samurai warrior due to its casual approach to death; to the ruling classes, challenging the intelligentsia because of its scholarly roots. A collection of Zen stories, meditation, and their wisdom, Zen Masters of Japan also explores the illusive state of 'No Mind' achieved in Japan that is so fundamental to Zen practices today"--

Subject

• Zen Buddhists > Japan > Biography
• Buddhist monks > Japan > Biography
• Zen Buddhism > Japan > History
• RELIGION > General
• RELIGION > Buddhism > Zen (see also PHILOSOPHY > Zen)
• Buddhist monks
• Zen Buddhism
• Zen Buddhists
• Japan

Genre/Form

• Biography.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-311) and index.

Contents

Prologue in China -- The Pioneers -- Dogen Kigen -- Dogen's Successors -- Chinese Connections -- Hanazono's Zen Masters -- Temple Founders -- Bassui -- Ikkyu Sojun -- Zen Style -- Takuan Soho and Martial Zen -- Suzuki Shosan -- Four 17th Century Masters -- Bankei Yotaku -- The Poet -- Shoju Rojin and His Disciple -- Hakuin Ekaku -- Hakuin's Heirs -- Sengai Gibon and Ryokan Daigu -- The Meiji Era -- Epilogue in Chicago.

Call Number

JFD 16-1190

ISBN

• 9784805312728
• 4805312726

LCCN

2013021460

OCLC

828670962

Author

McDaniel, Richard Bryan.

Title

Zen masters of Japan : the second step East / Richard Bryan McDaniel.

Publisher

North Clarendon, VT : Tuttle Publishing, 2013.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-311) and index.

Research Call Number

JFD 16-1190