Swedenborg : Buddha of the North (Swedenborg Studies, No. 5) (Swedenborg Studies, 5) - Hardcover

Suzuki, Daisetz Teitaro

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9780877851851: Swedenborg : Buddha of the North (Swedenborg Studies, No. 5) (Swedenborg Studies, 5)

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ISBN 10: 0877851859 ISBN 13: 9780877851851

Publisher: Swedenborg Foundation, 1996

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" important for anyone who is concerned with inter-religious dialogue and the meaning of visionary mysticism."
--"The Reader's Review"
This first complete English translation of two works by Zen scholar D.T. Suzuki introduces Emanuel Swedenborg and compares Swedenborgian thought to Buddhism. The first work stresses Swedenborg's message that true spirituality demands an engagement in this world; the second compares Swedenborg's description of heaven to the paradise of Pure Land Buddhism."

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When D.T. Suzuki returned home after more than a decade in America, working for Open Court Publishing House, he brought with him a unique understanding of contemporary American religious culture. The religious teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg, the great 18th century scientific savant and visionary mystic, were in a vogue in turn of century America. Suzuki was taken by how much of his teaching carried on a strong family resemblance with Mahayana Buddhism. In Japan at this time there was a debate about the religious value of the traditional religions, given the scientific and technological innovations of Western knowledge. Suzuki wrote this essay about how the scientific were united in this European to encourage Japanese to value their own traditional religions. Suzuki also translated several of Swedenborg's popular works into Japanese. This translation of Suzuki's essay into English is accompanied by a historic essay about the work in Japanese culture and Suzuki's later relationship with Swedenborgianism. The volume is important for anyone who is concerned with interreligious dialogue and the meaning of the visionary mysiticsm of Swedenborg.

About the Author:

Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki (1870-1966) is credited with introducing the West to Zen Buddhism. Suzuki pursued his religious and philosophical studies at Tokyo University. After a ten-year sojourn in the United States, where he worked as an editor of Oriental Studies for Open Court Press, Suzuki returned to his native Japan where he undertook the translation of Swedenborg's works into Japanese. Throughout his long life, this Buddhist scholar taught at colleges in Japan, the United States, and Europe, including Columbia, Yale, Harvard, Cambridge, and Oxford. His works are collected in the 32-volume "Suzuki Daisetsu Zenshu." Among his works available in English are "Essays in Zen Buddhism," "Mysticism: Christian and Buddhist," and "Zen and Japanese Culture.""

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