Zen And Japanese Culture

Author : Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Japan
ISBN : CORNELL:31924000496038

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Zen and Japanese Culture by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki Pdf

One of this century's leading works on Zen, this book is a valuable source for those wishing to understand its concepts in the context of Japanese life and art. In simple, often poetic, language, Daisetz Suzuki describes what Zen is, how it evolved, and how its emphasis on primitive simplicity and self-effacement have helped to shape an aesthetics found throughout Japanese culture. He explores the surprising role of Zen in the philosophy of the samurai, and subtly portrays the relationship between Zen and swordsmanship, haiku, tea ceremonies, and the Japanese love of nature. Suzuki's contemplative discussion is enhanced by anecdotes, poetry, and illustrations showing silk screens, calligraphy, and examples of architecture.

Author : Daisetz T. Suzuki
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691184500

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Zen and Japanese Culture by Daisetz T. Suzuki Pdf

Zen and Japanese Culture is a classic that has influenced generations of readers and played a major role in shaping conceptions of Zen’s influence on Japanese traditional arts. In simple and poetic language, Daisetz Suzuki describes Zen and its historical evolution. He connects Zen to the philosophy of the samurai, and subtly portrays the relationship between Zen and swordsmanship, haiku, tea ceremonies, and the Japanese love of nature. Suzuki uses anecdotes, poetry, and illustrations of silk screens, calligraphy, and architecture. The book features an introduction by Richard Jaffe that acquaints readers with Suzuki’s life and career and analyzes the book’s reception in light of contemporary criticism, especially by scholars of Japanese Buddhism. Zen and Japanese Culture is a valuable source for those wishing to understand Zen in the context of Japanese life and art, and remains one of the leading works on the subject.

Author : Daisetz T. Suzuki,William Barrett
Publisher : Harmony
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1996-07-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780385483490

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Zen Buddhism by Daisetz T. Suzuki,William Barrett Pdf

No other figure in history has played a bigger part in opening the West to Buddhism than the eminent Zen author, D.T. Suzuki, and in this reissue of his best work readers are given the very heart of Zen teaching. Zen Buddhism, which sold more than 125,000 as an Anchor paperback after its publication in 1956, includes a basic historical background as well as a thorough overview of the techniques for Zen practice. Concepts and terminology such as satori, zazen, and koans, as well as the various elements of this philosophy are all given clear explanations. But while Suzuki takes nothing for granted in the reader's understanding of the fundamentals, he does not give a merely rudimentary overview. Each of the essays included here, particularly those on the unconscious mind and the relation of Zen to Western philosophy, go far beyond other sources for their penetrating insights and timeless wisdom. What is most important about D.T. Suzuki's work, however--and what comes across so powerfully in these selections--is his unparalleled ability to communicate the experiential aspect of Zen. The intensity here with which Zen philosophy comes to life is without parallel in the canon of Buddhist literature. Suzuki stands apart from all teachers before or since because of his exceptional ability to eloquently capture in words the seemingly inexpressible essence of Zen.

Author : Rupert Cox
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781136855580

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The Zen Arts by Rupert Cox Pdf

The tea ceremony and the martial arts are intimately linked in the popular and historical imagination with Zen Buddhism, and Japanese culture. They are commonly interpreted as religio-aesthetic pursuits which express core spiritual values through bodily gesture and the creation of highly valued objects. Ideally, the experience of practising the Zen arts culminates in enlightenment. This book challenges that long-held view and proposes that the Zen arts should be understood as part of a literary and visual history of representing Japanese culture through the arts. Cox argues that these texts and images emerged fully as systems for representing the arts during the modern period, produced within Japan as a form of cultural nationalism and outside Japan as part of an orientalist discourse. Practitioners' experiences are in fact rarely referred to in terms of Zen or art, but instead are spatially and socially grounded. Combining anthropological description with historical criticism, Cox shows that the Zen arts are best understood in terms of a dynamic relationship between an aesthetic discourse on art and culture and the social and embodied experiences of those who participate in them.

Author : Thomas Hoover
Publisher : Thomas Hoover
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781452367095

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Zen Culture by Thomas Hoover Pdf

Random House 1977Zen History,Haiku, Ceramics, Archery, Landscape Garden, Stone Garden, Ink Landscape Scroll, Zen Architecture, Sword, Katana, No Theater, Noh Theater, Japanese Tea Ceremony, Flower arranging, Ikebana, Zen Ceramic Art, Raku, Shino, Ryoanji-ji 'Highly recommended'The Center for Asian Studies'A connoisseur'NYC-FM'Hoover provides an excellent introduction

Author : Pamela D. Winfield,Steven Heine
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780190469290

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Zen and Material Culture by Pamela D. Winfield,Steven Heine Pdf

Expanding on previous studies of Zen art history, material/visual culture, and religious practice, Zen and Material Culture focuses on the vast range of ""stuff"" in Japanese Zen, including beads, bowls, buildings, staffs, statues, rags, robes and even popular retail commodities distributed in America.

Author : Shoji Yamada
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780226784243

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Shots in the Dark by Shoji Yamada Pdf

In the years after World War II, Westerners and Japanese alike elevated Zen to the quintessence of spirituality in Japan. Pursuing the sources of Zen as a Japanese ideal, Shoji Yamada uncovers the surprising role of two cultural touchstones: Eugen Herrigel’s Zen in the Art of Archery and the Ryoanji dry-landscape rock garden. Yamada shows how both became facile conduits for exporting and importing Japanese culture. First published in German in 1948 and translated into Japanese in 1956, Herrigel’s book popularized ideas of Zen both in the West and in Japan. Yamada traces the prewar history of Japanese archery, reveals how Herrigel mistakenly came to understand it as a traditional practice, and explains why the Japanese themselves embraced his interpretation as spiritual discipline. Turning to Ryoanji, Yamada argues that this epitome of Zen in fact bears little relation to Buddhism and is best understood in relation to Chinese myth. For much of its modern history, Ryoanji was a weedy, neglected plot; only after its allegorical role in a 1949 Ozu film was it popularly linked to Zen. Westerners have had a part in redefining Ryoanji, but as in the case of archery, Yamada’s interest is primarily in how the Japanese themselves have invested this cultural site with new value through a spurious association with Zen.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1415171663

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Zen and Japanese Culture by Anonim Pdf

Author : Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki,Richard M. Jaffe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Japan
ISBN : 0691144621

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Zen and Japanese Culture by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki,Richard M. Jaffe Pdf

Zen and Japanese Culture is one of the twentieth century's leading works on Zen, and a valuable source for those wishing to understand its concepts in the context of Japanese life and art. In simple, often poetic, language, Daisetz Suzuki describes his conception of Zen and its historical evolution. He connects Zen to the philosophy of the samurai, and subtly portrays the relationship between Zen and swordsmanship, haiku, tea ceremonies, and the Japanese love of nature. Suzuki's contemplative work is enhanced by anecdotes, poetry, and illustrations showing silk screens, calligraphy, and examples of architecture. Since its original publication in 1938, this important work has played a major role in shaping conceptions of Zen's influence on Japanese traditional arts. Richard Jaffe's introduction acquaints a new generation of readers with Suzuki's life and career in both Japan and America. Jaffe discusses how Zen and Japanese Culture was received upon its first publication and analyzes the book in light of contemporary criticism, especially by scholars of Japanese Buddhism.

Author : Brian Daizen Victoria
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2006-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781461647478

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Zen at War by Brian Daizen Victoria Pdf

A compelling history of the contradictory, often militaristic, role of Zen Buddhism, this book meticulously documents the close and previously unknown support of a supposedly peaceful religion for Japanese militarism throughout World War II. Drawing on the writings and speeches of leading Zen masters and scholars, Brian Victoria shows that Zen served as a powerful foundation for the fanatical and suicidal spirit displayed by the imperial Japanese military. At the same time, the author recounts the dramatic and tragic stories of the handful of Buddhist organizations and individuals that dared to oppose Japan's march to war. He follows this history up through recent apologies by several Zen sects for their support of the war and the way support for militarism was transformed into 'corporate Zen' in postwar Japan. The second edition includes a substantive new chapter on the roots of Zen militarism and an epilogue that explores the potentially volatile mix of religion and war. With the increasing interest in Buddhism in the West, this book is as timely as it is certain to be controversial.

Author : Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : UOMDLP:afz6295:0001.001

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Zen Buddhism and Its Influence on Japanese Culture by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki Pdf

Author : Richard Bryan McDaniel
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781462910502

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Zen Masters Of China by Richard Bryan McDaniel Pdf

Zen Masters of China presents more than 300 traditional Zen stories and koans, far more than any other collection. Retelling them in their proper place in Zen's historical journey through Buddhist Chinese culture, it also tells a larger story: how, in taking the first step east from India to China, Buddhism began to be Zen. The stories of Zen are unlike any other writing, religious or otherwise. Used for centuries by Zen teachers as aids to bring about or deepen the experience of awakening, they have a freshness that goes beyond religious practice and a mystery and authenticity that appeal to a wide range of readers. Placed in chronological order, these stories tell the story of Zen itself, how it traveled from West to East with each Zen master to the next, but also how it was transformed in that journey, from an Indian practice to something different in Chinese Buddhism (Ch'an) and then more different still in Japan (Zen). The fact that its transmission was so human, from teacher to student in a long chain from West to East, meant that the cultures it passed through inevitably changed it. Zen Masters of China is first and foremost a collection of mind-bending Zen stories and their wisdom. More than that, without academic pretensions or baggage, it recounts the genealogy of Zen Buddhism in China and, through koan and story, illuminates how Zen became what it is today.

Author : Horace Neill McFarland
Publisher : Kodansha Amer Incorporated
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Art
ISBN : 087011817X

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Daruma by Horace Neill McFarland Pdf

Author : David Watts Barton
Publisher : Stone Bridge Press, Inc.
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-27
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781611729450

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Japan from Anime to Zen by David Watts Barton Pdf

This friendly guide offers concise but detailed demystifications of more than 85 aspects of ancient and modern Japan. It can be read in sequence, or just dipped into, depending on the moment’s need. Explanations go much deeper than a typical travel guide and cover 1,500 years of history and culture, everything from geisha to gangsters, haiku to karaoke, the sun goddess to the shogunate . . . and anime to Zen.

Author : H. Paul Varley
Publisher : New York : Praeger
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1973-01-01
Category : Japan
ISBN : 0571102980

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Japanese Culture; a Short History by H. Paul Varley Pdf