Zen and Comparative Studies

ISBN-13: 9780333611999 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 262 str.

S. Heine; M. Abe

Opis

Zen is not a religion of God. Nor a religion of faith. It is a religion of emptiness, a religion of absolute nothingness. In this book, a sequel to Zen and Western Thought, the author tries to clarify the true meaning of Buddhist emptiness in comparison with Aristotelian notion of substance and Whiteheadron notion of process.

Spis treści

PART 1: FUNDAMENTALS OF ZEN - Zen and Buddhism - The Core of Zen: the Ordinary Mind is Tao - 'Life and Death' and 'Good and Evil' in Zen - Emptiness - God, Emptiness, and the True Self - The Concept of Self as Reflected in Zen Buddhist Literature - Education in Zen - PART 2: ZEN, BUDDHISM AND WESTERN THOUGHT - Substance, Process, and Emptiness: Aristotle, Whitehead, and Zen - The Problem of Death in East and West Immortality, Eternal Life, Unbornness - Sunyata as Formless Form: Plato and Mahayana Buddhism - The Self in Jung and Zen - PART 3: CURRENT ISSUES IN BUDDHISM - Time in Buddhism - On the Occasion of Buddha Day 1990: the Future Task of Buddhism - Transformation in Buddhism - Religious Tolerance and Human Rights: a Buddhist Perspective - PART 4: ZEN AND JAPANESE CULTURE - Shinto and Buddhism: the Two Major Religions of Japan - Zen in Japan - The Japanese View of Truth - Index

O autorze

MASAO ABE