Zen Buddhism: Selected Writings of D. T. Suzuki

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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