Swedenborg: Buddha of the North: 5 Paperback – 1 June 1996
by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki (Author), Andrew Bernstein (Translator)
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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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168 pages
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English
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Swedenborg Foundation
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1 June 1996
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15.24 x 1.52 x 22.86 cm
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0877851840
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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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Publisher : Swedenborg Foundation (1 June 1996)
Language : English
Paperback : 168 pages
ISBN-10 : 0877851840
ISBN-13 : 978-0877851844
Dimensions : 15.24 x 1.52 x 22.86 cmCustomer Reviews:
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5.0 out of 5 stars Buddhism and Christanity off the beaten pathReviewed in the United States on 6 December 2015
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This is a fascinating view from the Far East and the Zen Buddhist tradition, a view of Emanuel Swedenborg, an imaginative or inspired Christian of the Western North in the 1700s. The title calls Swedenborg the Buddha of the North. Swedenborg, like Ghandi, believes truly in love and the heart.
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Robert L. Clasen
4.0 out of 5 stars A rare curiosity for Suzuki fans.Reviewed in the United States on 2 October 2017
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Interesting book if you are a D.T. Suzuki fan. A book written when he was very young before he became famous in America.
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Aeioia Ko
4.0 out of 5 stars and like Suzuki, it attractedReviewed in the United States on 24 September 2014
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I haven't really deeply absorbed this book, haven't read every word, but as I am interested in Swedenborg and Buddha, and like Suzuki, it attracted. The sense I got from the actual essay of Suzuki is like that of a flower essence: there's a hint, a fragrance of Swedenborg's clarity and love of goodness, but not the full impact of submersion. The introductory essay seemed off to me in a couple places, like when Suzuki is referred to as becoming increasingly chauvanistic towards the end of his life. This may have been the case, but it seemed unecessary to say so and it wasn't very clear how this was so.
Again, I only skimmed over the surface of this book, but the sense of Swedenborg's relation to Buddha's teaching didn't come across strongly.
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Jose Valladares
5.0 out of 5 stars Five StarsReviewed in the United States on 12 August 2015
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