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1 Forew | the greatest authority on Zen Buddhism. His major works
2 Forew | bibliography of books on Zen in English clearly shows,
3 Forew | 1913) nothing was known of Zen as a living experience,
4 Forew | publication of Essays in Zen Buddhism (Volume I) in 1927.~
5 Forew | a considerable task.~Of Zen itself I need say nothing
6 Forew | subject, such as The Spirit of Zen by Alan Watts (Murray),
7 Forew | translations of Chinese Zen Scriptures and other works
8 Forew | West is rising rapidly. Zen, however, is a subject extremely
9 Note | to the Author's Essays in Zen Buddhism, Series One and
10 Note | and to his Introduction to Zen Buddhism, are to the second
11 Pref | EDITION~In my Introduction to Zen Buddhism (published 1934),
12 Pref | published 1934), an outline of Zen teaching is sketched, and
13 Pref | and in The Training of the Zen Monk (1934) a description
14 Pref | desire to know about what the Zen monk reads before the Buddha
15 Pref | prefer these smaller works on Zen.~DAISETZ TEITARO SUZUKI~
16 1 | exclusively those of the Zen sect; some belong to general
17 1, 11 (1)| It is customary in the Zen monastery to recite the
18 2 | has no legitimate place in Zen. That it has nevertheless
19 2 | dynasty, when the Japanese Zen masters visited China and
20 2 | Shingon elements of Chinese Zen. In China the Shingon did
21 2 | long but left its traces in Zen.~Dharani, the root of which
22 3 | The sutras most read in Zen are the Shingyo (Prajnaparamitahridaya),
23 3 | nowadays by followers of Zen. For further information
24 3 | Mahayana school with which Zen students will do well to
25 3, 2 (1)| the Holy Path, including Zen, Tendai, Shingon, Nichiren,
26 3, 4 | the essential teaching of Zen. Since then it has been
27 3, 4 | been studied chiefly by Zen philosophers. But being
28 3, 5 | this is the one used by the Zen and also by the Shingon.
29 3, 5 | followed in this sutra is Zen rather than Shingon. It
30 3, 5 | commentaries of it belong to the Zen school. The terms used here
31 4 | IV. FROM THE CHINESE ZEN MASTERS~There is a large
32 4 | to be called especially Zen because of its style and
33 4 | treatises specifically on Zen from the rest of Buddhist
34 4 | other literary works of a Zen master. Strictly speaking,
35 4 | Goroku is not limited to Zen. One of the chief characteristics
36 4 | chief characteristics of the Zen Goroku is the free use of
37 4 | literature of China. As long as Zen appeals to one's direct
38 4, 2 (2)| by the third patriarch of Zen, it has sometimes an intellectual
39 4, 2 (2)| the predominant note of Zen Buddhism is more intellectual
40 4, 2 | self-contradiction. The philosophy of Zen avoids the error of one-sidedness
41 4, 4 (1)| the, sixth patriarch of Zen Buddhism. Before he was
42 4, 4 (1)| Before he was converted to Zen he was a student of the
43 4, 4 (1)| number of short works on Zen philosophy, and of them
44 4, 4 | delve into the secrets of Zen;~And ever since I was enabled
45 4, 4 | with.~20. For walking is Zen, sitting is Zen,~Whether
46 4, 4 | walking is Zen, sitting is Zen,~Whether talking or remaining
47 4, 4 | discriminatory mind;~For this reason Zen teaches to have a thorough
48 4, 4 | are they cured?~Practise Zen while in a world of desires,
49 4, 5 | posthumous title was the Zen Master of Great Quietude (
50 4, 5 | that, Ma-tsu.~Historically, Zen Buddhism was introduced
51 4, 5 | as the first patriarch of Zen Buddhism in China; for this
52 4, 5 | for this was the time when Zen to be properly so called
53 4, 5 | became the hot-bed of the Zen movement. All the followers
54 4, 5 | movement. All the followers of Zen in China as well as in Japan
55 4, 5 | of Chi-chou and studied Zen Buddhism. Hsing-ssu like
56 4, 5 | flying about."~ ~"What is Zen?" asked a monk.~"Brick and
57 4, 5 | quotations see my Essays on Zen, I, II, and III.]~The monk
58 4, 6 (2)| Buddhahood. The position of Zen Buddhism is that One Mind
59 4, 6 | special article in one of my Zen Essays will be devoted to
60 4, 6 | reason, when followers of Zen fail to go beyond a world
61 4, 6 | first.~That followers of Zen fail to recognize the Buddha
62 4, 7 (1)| time the most popular of Zen texts. The words in brackets
63 4, 7 (1)| of the Pi-yen Chi, see my Zen Essays, Series II, p. 237
64 4, 7, 3 | after years of his study of Zen, in absolute nakedness with
65 4, 7, 3 | those days there were many Zen monasteries each of which
66 4, 7, 5 | lies the highest point of Zen, this is where we have true
67 4, 8, 1 | Pictures" is said to be a Zen master of the Sung Dynasty
68 4, 8, 1 | means of pictures stages of Zen discipline, for in his general
69 4, 8, 1 | pictures he refers to another Zen master called Seikyo (Ching-chu),
70 4, 8, 1 | of the ox to explain his Zen teaching. But in Seikyo'
71 4, 8, 1 | gradual development of the Zen life was indicated by a
72 4, 8, 1 | circle being made the goal of Zen discipline. Some might take
73 4, 8, 1 | Oxherding Pictures by a Zen master called jitoku Ki (
74 4, 8, 1 | reproduced are by Shubun, a Zen priest of the fifteenth
75 5 | V. FROM THE JAPANESE ZEN MASTERS~Dai-o (1235-I308),
76 5 | Japanese Rinzai school of Zen. All the masters of this
77 5 | the Japanese history of Zen. Daito is the founder of
78 5 | followed another lineage of the Zen masters was versatile in
79 5 | was the founder of many Zen temples throughout Japan
80 5 | father of modern Rinzai Zen. Without him it would be
81 5 | hard to tell the fate of Zen in Japan. He was no founder
82 5 | himself to the bringing up of Zen monks and to the propagation
83 5, 1 | I DAI-O KOKUSHI "ON ZEN"~There is a reality even
84 5, 4 | ocean in order to study Zen in Sung. He interviewed
85 5, 4 | Hsu-t'ang (Kido) the great Zen master at Ching-tz'u (Jinzu)
86 5, 4 | himself to the realization of Zen experience. Finally at Ching-shan (
87 5, 4 | When finally he mastered Zen, the venerable Dai-o gave
88 5, 4 | Dai-o. He resuscitated Zen which had been in a state
89 5, 4 | alive the true spirit of Zen discipline; all this is
90 5, 4 (1)| one of the most important Zen headquarters in Japan. All
91 5, 4 (1)| headquarters in Japan. All the Zen masters of the present day
92 6 | STATUES AND PICTURES IN A ZEN MONASTERY~Visitors to a
93 6 | MONASTERY~Visitors to a Zen monastery in Japan will
94 6, 1 | Mahavairocana); the Nichiren and the Zen, Shaka Nyorai (Sakyamuni).
95 6, 1 | uniformly observed by the Zen sect and much latitude has
96 6, 1 | proper one no doubt for all Zen institutions, for Zen claims
97 6, 1 | all Zen institutions, for Zen claims to transmit the Buddha-heart--
98 6, 1 | main seat of honour on the Zen altar. But frequently we
99 6, 1 | Gandavyuha incorporated into Zen. In fact, our religious
100 6, 1 | Perhaps it is only in the Zen monastery that the birth
101 6, 1 | displaced the Arhats.~But Zen has not forgotten the historical
102 6, 1 | the Buddha's life. While Zen is not apparently concerned
103 6, 1 | performed at all the main Zen monasteries in Japan for
104 6, 1 | birth as represented by Zen followers laces him in the
105 6, 1 | cities of Japan, not only by Zen followers but by all Buddhists
106 6, 1 | in the main hall of the Zen monastery. He is generally
107 6, 3 | excited the interest of the Zen monk-artist who has turned
108 6, 3 | imagination.~In a large Zen monastery the five hundred
109 6, 3 (1)| The Training of the Zen Monk, p. 40.
110 6, 4 | more or less exclusively to Zen, and they have each his
111 6, 4 | River, finds her shrine in a Zen monastery. Some say that
112 6, 4 | there is room even in the Zen monastery, where the severest
113 6, 4 (1)| also my Training of the Zen Monk, p. 106.~
114 6, 4 | object of respect in the Zen monastery.~Wherever the
115 6, 4 | lured away by the enemy. As Zen is connected with the philosophy
116 6, 4 | they are also the gods of Zen. The picture below shows
117 6, 4 | second series of my Essays in Zen Buddhism. Hsuan-chuang is
118 6, 5 | mythical personages the Zen monastery gives shelter
119 6, 5 | connected not only with Zen but with Buddhism as a whole.
120 6, 5 | Bodhidharma as founder of Zen Buddhism naturally occupies
121 6, 5 | Sakyamuni. With Japanese Zen followers, however, the
122 6, 5 | in each of the principal Zen institutions in Japan there
123 6, 5 | favourite subjects for the Zen masters to try their amateurish
124 6, 5 | the orthodox lineage of Zen transmission, his life and
125 6, 5 | uan-teng Lu)1 are full of Zen flavour, so to speak. His
126 6, 5 | gatha is well known to all Zen students.2 Tradition makes
127 6, 5 | of god of literature.~The Zen monastery harbours many
128 6, 5 (2)| Introduction to Zen Buddhism, p. 58.~
129 6, 5 (3)| Zen Essays, III, Plates XIV