Manual of Zen Buddhism

By Suzuki, Daisetz Teitaro

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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Manual of Zen Buddhism
Author:	Suzuki, Daisetz Teitaro
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection
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Excerpt
Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, D.Litt., Professor of Buddhist Philosophy in the Otani University, Kyoto, was born in 1870. He is probably now the greatest living authority on Buddhist philosophy, and is certainly the greatest authority on Zen Buddhism. His major works in English on the subject of Buddhism number a dozen or more, and of his works in Japanese as yet unknown to the West there are at least eighteen. He is, moreover, as a chronological bibliography of books on Zen in English clearly shows, the pioneer teacher of the subject outside Japan, for except for Kaiten Nukariya's Religion of the Samurai (Luzac and Co., 1913) nothing was known of Zen as a living experience, save to the readers of The Eastern Buddhist (1921-1939), until the publication of Essays in Zen Buddhism (Volume I) in 1927. Dr. Suzuki writes with authority. Not only has he studied original works in Sanskrit, Pali, Chinese and Japanese, but he has an up-to-date knowledge of Western thought in German and French as well as in the English which he speaks and writes so fluently. He is, moreover, more than a scholar; he is a Buddhist. Though not a priest of any Buddhist sect, he is honoured in every temple in Japan, for his knowledge of spiritual things, as all who have sat at his feet bear witness, is direct and profound. When he speaks of the higher stages of consciousness he speaks as a man who dwells therein, and the impression he makes on those who enter the fringes of his mind is that of a man who seeks for the intellectual symbols wherewith to describe a state of awareness which lies indeed beyond the intellect.

Table of Contents
· EDITOR'S FOREWORD TO SECOND EDITION · EDITOR'S NOTE TO SECOND EDITION · PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION · I. GATHAS AND PRAYERS · I. ON OPENING THE SUTRA · II. CONFESSION · III. THE THREEFOLD REFUGE · IV. THE FOUR GREAT VOWS[1] · V. THE WORSHIPPING OF THE SARIRA · VI. THE TEACHING OF THE SEVEN BUDDHAS · VII. THE GATHA OF IMPERMANENCE[1] · VIII. THE YEMMEI KWANNON TEN-CLAUSE SUTRA[1] · IX. PRAYER ON THE OCCASION OF FEEDING THE HUNGRY GHOSTS · X. GENERAL PRAYER[1] · XI. PRAYER OF THE BELL · II. THE DHARANIS · I. DHARANI OF REMOVING DISASTERS · II. DHARANI OF THE GREAT COMPASSIONATE ONE · III. DHARANI OF THE VICTORIOUS BUDDHA-CROWN · III. THE SUTRAS · I. ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE SHINGYO · II. THE KWANNON SUTRA[1] · III. THE KONGOKYO OR DIAMOND SUTRA[2]