Selected Works of D.T. Suzuki, Volume III

Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki was a key figure in the introduction of Buddhism to the non-Asian world. Many outside Japan encountered Buddhism for the first time through his writings and teaching, and for nearly a century his work and legacy have contributed to the ongoing religious and cultural interchange between Japan and the rest of the world, particularly the United States and Europe. This third volume of Selected Works of D. T. Suzuki brings together a diverse collection of Suzuki's letters, essays, and lectures about non-Buddhist religions and his thoughts on their relation to Buddhism, as well as his reflections on the nature of religion itself. Some of these writings have been translated into English for the first time in this volume. As a long-term resident of the United States, a world traveler, and a voracious consumer of information about all forms of religion, Suzuki was one of the foremost Japanese mediators of Eastern and Western religious cultures for nearly seven decades. An introduction by Jeff Wilson and Tomoe Moriya analyzes Suzuki's frequent encounters with texts and practitioners of many religions, considers how events in Suzuki's lifetime affected his interpretations of Christianity, Shinto, and other traditions, and demonstrates that his legacy as a scholar extends well beyond Buddhism.

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Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki (1870-1966) was a Japanese-born scholar and translator who over the course of the twentieth century came to be regarded as one of the leading authorities on Zen and Buddhism generally. He was the author of more than a hundred works on the subject in both Japanese and English and was instrumental in bringing Buddhist teachings to the attention of the Western world. His many books in English include An Introduction to Zen Buddhism, Essays in Zen Buddhism, Zen and Japanese Culture, Mysticism: Christian and Buddhist, and Shin Buddhism. Jeff Wilson is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and East Asian Studies at Renison University College, University of Waterloo, and the author of Mindful America: The Mutual Transformation of Buddhist Meditation and American Culture. Tomoe Moriya is Professor of International Communication at Hannan University in Japan and a coeditor of Issei Buddhism in the Americas. Richard M. Jaffe is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Duke University and the author of Neither Monk nor Layman: Clerical Marriage in Modern Japanese Buddhism.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction by Jeff Wilson and Tomoe Moriya
Editorial Note

1. Letter to Paul Carus (1896)
2. Selections from Shin shukyo ron (A New Interpretation of Religion)
3. Letter to Paul Carus (1897)
4. Christianity in Japan
5. Confucius: A Study of His Character and History
6. Selection from A Brief History of Early Chinese Philosophy
7. Selections from Suedenborugu (Swedenborg)
8. Zen, the Spiritual Heritage of the East
9. A Contemporary Buddhist View of Shinto
10. Swedenborg's View of Heaven and "Other-Power"
11. Selection from Ignorance and World Fellowship
12. Zen and the Study of Confucianism (Selection from Zen and Its Influence on Japanese Culture)
13. What Is Religion?
14. Selections from Japanese Spirituality
15. Tea-Room Meditations
16. Selections from Essays in Zen Buddhism (First Series)
17. The Predicament of Modern Man
18. The Analytic and Synthetic Approach to Buddhism
19. The Answer Is in the Question
20. The Hands
21. Letter to Mr. Tatsuguchi
22. Review of Meditation and Piety in the Far East
23. Selections from Mysticism: Christian and Buddhist
24. Love and Power
25. Letter to Thomas Merton
26. Wisdom in Emptiness
27. Open Letter to President Kennedy and Premier Khrushchev
28. Buddhism and Other Religions

29. Religion and Drugs

    Notes
    Glossary of Chinese and Japanese Terms
    Bibliography
    Index