Zen and Western Thought - Hardcover

Abe, Masao

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0824809521 ISBN 13: 9780824809522

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press, 1985

Synopsis

Book by Abe, Masao

About this title

From Library Journal:

Three quarters of this collection of articles by an outstanding philosopher of the Kyoto school is devoted to elucidating Zen for the West. The level of treatment presupposes some experience in Zen meditation as well as a solid background in philosophy and religion. Readers possessing these will find Abe's expositions of Mu , nirvana, purity, Emptiness, Buddha-Nature in Dogen as well as comparisons with Nietzsche, Whitehead, Tillich, Christianity, and science very valuable. The final section, which urges the necessity of transcending nationalism in order to realize a true world community bound together in egoless compassion, is especially timely as well as accessible to educated nonspecialists. Highly recommended. Astrid M. O'Brien, Humanities Div., Fordham Univ., Coll. at Lincoln Ctr., New York
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Review:

"An indispensable work for any student of Zen thought." --Religious Studies Review "Highly accessible ... Abe's work is not only unique but, I believe, very important for the comparative discourse on religion and ethics" --Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 31 (2004)

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0824809521
• ISBN 13: 9780824809522
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 336
• Editor: LaFleur William R.