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Zen Institute Komazawa University [Published Date: 1973]. Booklet, paper covers, 48 pp. Text in English (pp 1-28) followed by Japanese text (pp 29 - 48).
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In good condition. Cream pictorial paper covers have light bumping and creasing to edges and light overall scuffing, aging and soiling. Staple bound. Pages lightly aged but otherwise unmarked. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. [From Foreword] Recently, I was requested by Komazawa University to make a study tour abroad. As I planned to visit the United States during my travels 1 notified a priest friend living there of my plans. He wrote back asking me to give lectures on Buddhism and guidance in Zen at his temple because of the great interest in these subjects on the part of Americans. He particularly requested that I center my lectures on the Soto school of Zen Buddhism which is not, as yet, as well known in the West as Rinzai Zen. The following booklet is an attempt to answer his request. I have included sections not only on Buddhism in general and Soto Zen in particular, including its founder in Japan, Dogen, and his chief work the Shobogenzo; but I have also attempted to give a short explanation of the relationship of Zen Buddhism to Japanese culture in general. The material included in this booklet is based on previously published texts in Japanese which are re-published here in their original from as well as in English translation. Due to lack of preparatory time there are undoubtedly many mistakes in this text. . . . It is my sincerest hope that this booklet may be of some assistance to English-speaking peoples in their understanding of Buddhism and Zen, and enable them, however slightly, to near the final emancipation of Nirvana. in Gassho, Kakudo Yokoi. Yuho Yokoi was born in 1918 in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. Educated at Komazawa and Waseda universities, he is Associate Professor of English at Aichigakuin University. He entered the Soto Zen monkhood at the age of twenty, training at Soji-ji, one of the sect's two head temples. Mr. Yokoi has lectured on Zen Buddhism at the Universities of California, Hawaii, and Pennsylvania.