T H E E A ST E R N
B U D D H IS T
N E W SERIES
Vol. VII No. i
May, 1974
EDITORS
Nishitani Keiji
Sakamoto Hiroshi
Ito Emyo
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Abe Masao
Bando Shojun *
Richard DeMartino
Nagao Gadjin
Okamura Mihoko
Sato Taira
Ucda Shizutcru
Norman Waddell
SECRETARY
Ninomiya Kimiko
ADVISORY BOARD
Hisamatsu Shin’ichi, Director, F.A.S. Zen Institute
Tsukamoto Zenryu, Professor, Bukkyo University, Kyoto
Yamaguchi Susumu, Professor Emeritus, Otani University
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THE EASTERN BUDDHIST
An unsectarian journal devoted to an open and critical study of
Mahayana Buddhism in all o f its aspects, published by
T he Eastern Buddhist Society
Otani University, Kyoto
Vol. VU No. i
NEW SERIES
May 1974
CONTENTS
Myoe Shonin
frontispiece
ARTICLES
Zen Buddhism and a Commonsense World (posthumous^ Suzuki Daisetz
1
Buddhism in the Asuka-Nara Period, Tsukamoto Zenryu
...
19
Myoe’s Criticism of Honen’s Doctrine, Bando Sbojun ...
37
A Brief History of Buddhist Studies in Europe and America
(Part I), J . W . de Jong
...
55
VIEWS AND REVIEWS
One Cornered Future? Del Langbauer ...
107
TRANSLATIONS
T he King of Samadhis Samadhi, Dogen’s Sbdbdgenzo Sammai-O-Zammai,
translated by Norman Waddell and Abe Masao ...
118
T he Zen Sermons of Bankei Yotaku (Part II), translated by Norman
Waddell
...
124
THE EASTERN BUDDHIST
NEW SERIES
VOLUME V NUM BER 2 (October, 1972)
What is Shin Buddhism? by Suzuki Daisetz
Buddhist Elements in the Coming World Civilization, by Nolan Pu n y Jacobson
Chuang Tzu and Buddhism, by xMori Mikisabur6 T h e L ife o f L in-chi I-hruan, by Yanagida Seizan
N ihilism and Sunyata (concluded), by Nishhani Keiji
Dialogues, East and W est (II): Paul To u c h & Hisamatsu Sh in’ichi
ShtMgenzo Genjfkdan translated by Norman Waddell and Abe Masao
T h e Great Path o f Absolute Other Power & M y Faith, by Kiyozawa Manshi,
translated by Band© ShOjun
VIEWS AN D REVIEWS
Pre-Rational Harmony in Heidegger’s Essential Thinking and Ch’an Thought, by Chang Chung-yuan
Yeats and Zen Buddhism, by NaitO ShirG
BOOK REVIEWS AN D NOTES
VOLUME VI NUMBER 1 (May, 1973)
A Preface to the Kyogjoshmshi, by Suzuki Daisetz
On the Theory o f the Buddha-body, by Nagao Gad J in
Chinese Poetry and Zen, by Iriya Yqshitaka
T he Standpoint o f £unyata, by Nishitani Keiji
T h e Sayings o f R inzai: A Conversation Between Suzuki Daisetz & Ueda Shizuteru
Ikkyu's Skeletons, translated by R. H . Blyth
Shth-t-lun translated by Leo Pruden
VIEWS AN D REVIEWS
(I Kawabata’s Mcijin, by A. W. Sadler
I NOTES
H
VOLUME VI NUM BER 2 (October, 1973)
Um m on on T im e, by Suzuki Daisetz
Zen and Nietzsche, by Abe Masao
Ippen Shfinin, by Yanagi SGetsu
T h e Standpoint o f ^flnyatl, by Nishitani Keiji
Dialogues, East and West (III): Paul Tillich & Hisamatsu Sh in’ichi
Fukenzazengi and ShdM genzi zazzngi, DSgen Ki gen, translated by Norman Waddell and
Abe Masao
T h e Zen Sermons o f Bankei Ydtaku, translated by Norman Waddell
BOOK REVIEWS NOTES
VOLUME VII NUMBER 1 (May, 1974)
Zen Buddhism and a Commonsense World, by Suzuki Daisetz
Buddhism in the Asuka-Nara Period, by Tsukamoto ZenryU
Myde's Criticism o f H onea's D octrine, by BandO ShOjun
A B rief History o f Buddhist Studies in Europe and America (I), J. W. DeJong
T he K ing o f Samadhia Samadhi, D dgen’s Shobogenzd Sammat-O-Zammai, translated by Norman Waddell & .Xbe Masao
T he Zen Sermons o f Bankei Yotaku (II), translated by Norman Waddell
VIEWS AND REVIEWS
One Cornered Future? by Del I-angbauer
NOTES
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Studies in Japanese Culture
Vol. XXIX, No. i
Spring 1974
The Case of Christovao Ferreira
Hubert Cieslik
Rites o f Renewal at Ise
Felicia G. Bock
Chobuku Soga, A Noh Play by Miyamasu
Laurence Bresler
R
eview
A
rticles
Nationalist Revolution in Japan
Marlene J . Mayo
The Origins of Japanese
Roy Andrew Miller
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R
eviews
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Vol. XXIX, No. 2
Summer 1974
Jikkinsho. A Miscellany of Ten Maxims
John Brownlee
Thunberg in Japan and His Flora Japonica
in Japanese
Richard C. Rudolph
Otogi-zoshi. Short Stories of the Muromachi
Period
Chieko Irie Mulhern
The Early Liberal Thought ofTokutomi
Soho
John D. Pierson
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R
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