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Zen for Americans

By: Soyen Shaku
Narrated by: Denis Daly
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Zen for Americans. Sermons of a Buddhist abbot by Soyen Shaku. Translated by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki. Narrated by Denis Daly.

In a world riddled with irreconcilable conflict among doctrinaire religions, Soyen Shaku's crisp and incisive commentaries on Buddhism come across as particularly engaging. Shaku's eminently reasonable worldview and his skillful exposition of a truly universal definition of divinity and its inevitable necessity are both compelling and difficult to refute. In particular, this collection of discourses probes deeply and revealingly into the fundamental questions that occupy the minds of believers and unbelievers alike: why men cultivate religion in the first place and what the secret of its persistent vitality is.

Contents:

  1. Translator's Preface
  2. The Sutra of Forty-Two Chapters
  3. The God-Conception
  4. Assertions and Denials
  5. Immortality
  6. Buddhist Faith
  7. Buddhist Ethics
  8. What Is Buddhism?
  9. The Middle Way
  10. The Wheel of the Good Law
  11. The Phenomenal and the Supra-Phenomenal
  12. Reply to a Christian Critic
  13. Ignorance and Enlightenment
  14. Spiritual Enlightenment
  15. Practice of Dhyana
  16. Kwannon Bosatz
  17. Buddhism and Oriental Culture
  18. The Story of Deer Park
  19. The Story of the Gem-Hunting
  20. The Sacrifice for a Stanza
  21. Buddhist View of War
  22. At the Battle of Nan-Shan Hill
  23. A Memorial Address for Those Who Died in the Russo-Japanese War
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