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Enlightenment, a vast knowledge of judgment unity, is a notoriously fugitive judgment in Zen. Here, a eminent academician Heinrich Dumoulin traces a growth of Zen and a judgment of note from a origins in India by a growth in China to a delight in Japan. Delineating a Buddhist origins, as good as a Taoist and yogic influences, he traces a chronological trail Zen has followed, with special importance given to a growth of koan use and a papers of a good Japanese Zen master Dogen (1200–1253). He afterwards brings a knowledge to life by presenting, in his possess words, a note practice of a series of contemporary practitioners of Zen.
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #1057755 in Books
- Published on: 2007-12-11
- Released on: 2007-12-11
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.93" h x .52" w x 6.02" l, .61 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 192 pages
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“A wholesome and educational display of a essential inlet of Zen by an superb scholar. This book is an useful overpass between East and West.”—Masao Abe, author of Zen and Western Thought
"This book not usually creates for exegetic and profitable reading, it is also clearly and beautifully written."—Gershom Scholem, author of Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism
Language Notes
Text: English, German (translation)
About a Author
Heinrich Dumoulin (1905–1995) was one of a world's heading scholars of Zen and a author of several books on Zen and Buddhism, including A History of Zen Buddhism, Buddhism in a Modern World, and Christianity Meets Buddhism. He was for many years Professor of Philosophy and History of Religions during Sophia University in Japan.
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4 of 4 people found a following examination helpful.
The academics of enlghtenment
By calmly
The German Jesuit educational Heinrich Dumoulin constructed a challenging 2 volume story of Zen:
Zen Buddhism: A History, India & China
Zen Buddhism, Volume 2: A History (Japan) (Treasures of a World's Religions)
This shorter work by him, nonetheless it provides some story of Zen, does so usually with a concentration on explaining, in an educational fashion, a purpose of note in Zen. It is subsequent from lectures he gave during or before 1976.
I'd advise gripping in mind, if one does examination this book, that, as Dumoulin observes, one of a biggest Zen masters, Hui-Neng, could not examination or write, let alone know such a erudite display of Zen. Nevertheless, this book might yield some context for bargain Zen Buddhism and a practices. Even so, a coverage of contemporary note experiences, centering on a forced methods of Harada school, will seem surprising to any one study Soto Zen: it centering did to me. Of course, if we are an academician, this book might be ideal for you, nonetheless even afterwards we might find a section of Dogen's metaphysics tough going, maybe reduction so depending on your laxity with Mahayana Buddhism.
Some of a useful chronological credentials includes:
- Indian roots, observant a similarities between Yoga and zazen (e.g. a lotus pose)
- mythological first in China by Bodhidharma
- a Mahayana substructure of Zen
- how Taoism shabby a growth of Zen
- Hui-Neng and note as remarkable not gradual
- Lin-Chi and a commencement of Rinzai school
- a commencement of a use of systematic methods: zazen and koans
- Zen's entrance into Japan
- Dogen and a Soto sect: his importance on zazen and a metaphysics of a Buddhanature
The chronological elements we found well-presented and useful.
The reason of Dogen's training we found too educational and rather tough to follow (where's Brad Warner where we need him, for that see a reduction finish though deliberation easier to follow
Sit Down and Shut Up: Punk Rock Commentaries on Buddha, God, Truth, Sex, Death, and Dogen's Treasury of a Right Dharma Eye)
Dumoulin mentions a early Chinese Zen poem "Faith in Mind" that contains many Taoist elements. You can examination a explanation on this poem that can also beam your Zen sitting use by Master Sheng-yen in
Faith in Mind: A Commentary on Seng Ts'an's Classic.
If we use Soto Zen, we might wish to skip or during slightest easily browse, a final 2 chapters on Contemporary Accounts and Satori. It will seem baffling and substantially utterly discordant to what your Soto Zen master has taught. Whether anyone indeed can have a liberating believe of any value regulating a proceed of a Harada propagandize we roughly doubt; can a master unequivocally commend a suggestive satori of a footman or is there some arrange of collusion involved? we suspect I'm too questionable though my singular use has been Soto and utterly undramatic compared to what is described here. Nevertheless, we feel we have done some swell in experiencing nonduality (where am I?) and all though a pressures of a Harada approach. we suspect we can examination these 2 chapters and confirm what we make of it.
All in all, this comparatively brief book though is utterly ominous and, notwithstanding being so scholarly, might be of help...if it doesn't fill your conduct adult with lots of contribution and truth we might good not need if we meant to do Zen practice. Hopefully, if we don't meant to get a college grade in Zen, we can forgot many of it shortly after we finish reading though reason onto adequate to yield some context for your practice.
0 of 0 people found a following examination helpful.
Outstanding introduction, not to be missed
By John C. Marshell Jr.
Without a doubt, this book is one of a best introductions to Zen available. For those who might not wish to work by Father Dumoulin's dual volume story of Zen Buddhism, this brief book provides an glorious overview of a thesis while not neglecting critical and wilful chronological sum in Zen's development. Dumoulin's essay is transparent and distinct with terms good defined, and anyone with a infrequent or nascent bargain of Buddhism would advantage from a enlightenment on a pages.
Personally, we did not find a book to be all that "academic." Dumoulin's efforts to conclude Zen's growth in a systematic and historically contextualized demeanour around a thesis of "Zen enlightenment" would address, we think, an critical mainstream seductiveness in a purposeful core of Zen practice. What is Zen about? While it is loyal that Zen use requires a adherents to rivet in a arrange of mental iconoclasm practical to discursive and rationalizing thinking, nobody says that to have a satori believe we contingency have a genius same to vegetation. There are copiousness of intelligent guys who have been enlightened--Dogen comes to mind. To pull a eminence between "this believe and that knowledge" is to entice a dualism that many Zen masters, we think, would eschew. Dumoulin addresses a emanate on page sixty dual citing that "Lin-chi did not during all drop a resources of training he had acquired as a girl when he incited to Zen, though rather integrated it into a remade devout experience." Integration is a pivotal to a devout life. This book is a estimable further to anyone's library. Read it though fear.
Dumoulin's efforts to write about Dogen in a book we cruise "introductory" are laudable. Certainly not a easiest meditative to hang your mind around in usually a few pages. However, for those who wish to learn more,Eihei Dogen: Mystical Realist, Revised, Third Edition, by Hee-Jin Kim, is still deliberate a "classic" in Buddhist publications. It would element this squeeze nicely.
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