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Zen for Americans
Sōen Shaku · Buddhism · 1906
Translated by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
23 chapters
Sōen Shaku's 1906 lectures and addresses — translated by his student D.T. Suzuki — including the Sutra of Forty-Two Chapters, Buddhist conceptions of God, soul, and reality, and Sōen's own Zen instruction. The first Zen book in English.
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Contents
- 1Translator's Preface
- 2The Sutra of Forty-Two Chapters
- 3The God-Conception of Buddhism
- 4Assertions and Denials
- 5Immortality
- 6Buddhist Faith
- 7Buddhist Ethics
- 8What is Buddhism?
- 9The Middle Way
- 10The Wheel of the Good Law
- 11The Phenomenal And The Supraphenomenal
- 12Reply to a Christian Critic
- 13Ignorance and Enlightenment
- 14Spiritual Enlightenment
- 15Practice of Dhyana
- 16Kwannon Bosatz
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