Zen Buddhism: Selected Writings

About this book

No other figure in history has played a bigger part in opening the West to Buddhism than the eminent Zen author D.T. Suzuki. In the reissue of his best work, readers are given the very heart of Zen teaching. These writings are brought together to form the most accessible & definitive overview of Zen philosophy available. The sense of Zen Zen in relation to Buddhism generally The history of Zen Satori, or, Enlightenment Practical methods of Zen instruction The reason of unreason: the koan exercise The Zen doctrine of no-mind The role of nature in Zen Buddhism Existentialism, pragmatism & Zen Painting, swordsmanship, tea ceremony