Zen Pathways: An Introduction to the Philosophy and Practice of Zen Buddhism

Bret W. Davis

ISBN 10: 019757369X / ISBN 13: 9780197573693

Published by OUP USA 2022-02-10, 2022

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Zen Pathways: An Introduction to the Philosophy and Practice of Zen Buddhism
• Publisher: OUP USA 2022-02-10
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 019757369X
• ISBN 13: 9780197573693
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This book offers an in-depth introduction to the philosophy and practice of Zen Buddhism.

About the Author

Bret W. Davis is Professor and Thomas J. Higgins, S.J. Chair in Philosophy at Loyola University Maryland, where he teaches classes in Western, Asian, and cross-cultural philosophy, and where he directs The Heart of Zen Meditation Group. In addition to publishing more than seventy-five scholarly articles, he has authored, edited, and translated a number of books, including Japanese Philosophy in the World (in Japanese), Heidegger and the Will: On the Way to Gelassenheit, Martin Heidegger: Key Concepts, Japanese and Continental Philosophy: Conversations with the Kyoto School, Engaging Dogen's Zen: The Philosophy of Practice as Awakening, The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Philosophy, and Bipedal Philosophers (in Japanese). In 2001, he obtained a Ph.D. in philosophy from Vanderbilt University. He lived in Japan for more than a dozen years, during which time he studied Buddhist thought at Otani University, and Japanese philosophy at Kyoto University, while practicing Zen at the

monastery of Shokokuji in Kyoto. He is fluent in Japanese, semi-fluent in German, and proficient in reading Classical Chinese. In 2010, he was formally recognized as a Teacher (Sensei) and Director of a Zen Center by Kobayashi Gentoku Roshi, the current abbot of Shokokuji.