Authors:Paul L. Swanson, Clark Chilson,
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Keywords: nanzan, religion, culture, asian, religions, guide, japanese, library
Number of Pages: 466
Published: 2005-11
List price: $47.00
ISBN-10: 0824830024
ISBN-13: 9780824830021

The Nanzan Guide to Japanese Religions has been prepared as an aid for students and scholars engaged in research on Japanese religions. It is the first resource guide to encompass the entire field of Japanese religions and provide tools for navigating it. In the nearly forty years that have elapsed since the appearance of Joseph Kitagawa’s Religion in Japanese History (1966), there has been a large amount of new scholarship on the role of religion in Japanese history. What general summaries there are of Japanese Buddhism and Shinto have tended to rely on scholarship from the 1960s and 197

Author: Hajime Tanabe
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: religion, culture, studies, nanzan, metanoetics, philosophy
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1990-03-13
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0520069781
ISBN-13: 9780520069787

A milestone in Japan’s post-war philosophical thought and a dramatic turning point in Tanabe’s own philosophy, Philosophy as Metanoetics calls for nothing less than a complete and radical rethinking of the philosophical task itself. It is a powerful, original work, showing vast erudition in all areas of both Eastern and Western thought.

Author: Keiji Nishitani
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: religion, culture, studies, nanzan, kitaro, nishida
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 1991-05-08
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0520073649
ISBN-13: 9780520073647

In recent years several books by major figures in Japan’s modern philosophical tradition have appeared in English, exciting readers by their explorations of the borderlands between philosophy and religion. What has been wanting, however, is a book in a Western language to elucidate the life and thought of Nishida Kitaro (1870-1945), Japan’s first philosopher of world stature and the originator of what has come to be called the Kyoto School. No one is more qualified to write such a book than Nishitani Keiji, whose lifetime coincides with the rise and flow

Author: Thomas Yuho Kirchner
Publisher: Univ of Hawaii Pr
Keywords: religion, culture, asian, library, linji, nanzan, record
Number of Pages: 485
Published: 2008-10
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0824828216
ISBN-13: 9780824828219

The Linji lu (Record of Linji) has been an essential text of Chinese and Japanese Zen Buddhism for nearly a thousand years. A compilation of sermons, statements, and acts attributed to the great Chinese Zen master Linji Yixuan (d. 866), it serves as both an authoritative statement of Zen’s basic standpoint and a central source of material for Zen koan practice. Scholars study the text for its importance in understanding both Zen thought and East Asian Mahayana doctrine, while Zen practitioners cherish it for its unusual simplicity, directness, and ability to inspire. One of the earlie

Author: Mark R. Mullins
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Keywords: library, asian, religion, culture, nanzan, movements, made, japan, study, indigenous, christianity
Number of Pages: 292
Published: 1998-11-01
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0824821327
ISBN-13: 9780824821326

For centuries the accommodation between Japan and Christianity has been an uneasy one. Compared with others of its Asian neighbors, the churches in Japan have never counted more than a small minority of believers more or less resigned to patterns of ritual and belief transplanted from the West. But there is another side to the story, one little known and rarely told: the rise of indigenous movements aimed at a Christianity that is at once made in Japan and faithful to the scriptures and apostolic tradition. Christianity Made in Japan draws on extensive field research to give an intriguing and

Author: Keiji Nishitani
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: religion, culture, studies, nanzan, nothingness
Number of Pages: 366
Published: 1983-10-06
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0520049462
ISBN-13: 9780520049468

In Religion and Nothingness the leading representative of the Kyoto School of Philosophy lays the foundation of thought for a world in the making, for a world united beyond the differences of East and West. Keiji Nishitani notes the irreversible trend of Western civilization to nihilism, and singles out the conquest of nihilism as the task for contemporary philosophy. Nihility, or relative nothingness, can only be overcome by being radicalized to Emptiness, or absolute nothingness. Taking absolute nothingness as the fundamental notion in rational explanations of the Eastern experience of human

Author: Victor Sogen Hori
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Keywords: asian, library, religion, culture, multilingual, nanzan, practice, book, sand, capping, phrases, koan, zen
Number of Pages: 880
Published: 2003-02
List price: $46.00
ISBN-10: 0824822846
ISBN-13: 9780824822842

Zen Sand is a classic collection of verses aimed at aiding practitioners of koan meditation to negotiate the difficult relationship between insight and language. As such it represents a major contribution to both Western Zen practice and English-language Zen scholarship. In Japan, the traditional Rinzai Zen koan curriculum includes the use of jakugo, or "capping phrases." Once a monk has successfully replied to a koan, the Zen master orders the search for a classical verse to express the monk’s insight into the koan. Special collections of these jakugo were compiled as handbooks to a