Masao Abe a Zen Life of DialogueMasao Abe: A Zen Life of Dialogue is a compilation of essays that cover the life and work of Masao Abe, perhaps one of the greatest Zen Buddhist communicators of the twentieth century. Masao Abe has opened up a rich dialogue between Japan and the West. He is considered the leading living Zen figure in the Kyoto School of Buddhist thought and the successor of D.T. Suzuki, his early mentor, as the foremost exponent of Zen Buddhism in the West. Through stories and recollections, thirty-five leading intellectual figures explore Abe’s encounter with the West, including his work on interfaith dialogue as a basis for world peace as well as his comparative philosophical scholarship over the past thirty years. This book is a retrospective and an extra ordinary step ahead in the encounter between Zen and the West. |
Contents
Chapter Two The Fire in the Lotus | |
Chapter Three My Encounters with Masao Abe in Japan and | |
Chapter Four The F A S Acronym in Masao Abes Life Trajectory | |
Chapter Five The Zen Roots of Masao Abes Thought | |
Chapter Eight Interpretation as Interlocution | |
Chapter Nine A Tribute to Mr Dialogue | |
Chapter Ten Masao Abe and Nishidas Logic of Place | |
Chapter TwentyOne Fritz Buris Assessment of Masao Abes | |
A Dialogue | |
On Traces | |
Chapter TwentyFour Masao Abe as D T Suzukis Philosophical | |
Chapter TwentyFive KitaroNishida William James and Masao | |
Chapter TwentySeven Masao Abe on Negativity in the East | |
Chapter TwentyEight Masao Abe and Martin Heidegger Joan Stambaugh | |
Conversations | |
Chapter Eleven Masao Abe as a Zen Teacher in the West | |
Chapter Twelve Dialogue and Unity | |
Chapter Thirteen The Meaning of Emptiness | |
Chapter Fourteen Kenosis and Sunyatain the Contemporary | |
Chapter Fifteen The Experience of Neighborhood | |
Chapter Sixteen A Tribute to a Prophetic Roshi | |
Chapter Eighteen Emptiness Holy Nothingness and | |
Chapter Nineteen The AbePannenberg Encounter | |
Chapter Thirty Buddhism and Human Rights | |
Chapter ThirtyTwo Between Zen and the West Zen and Zen | |
Chapter ThirtyThree Masao Abe and His Dialogical Mission | |
Dialogue | |
Reflections on a Life | |
A Response by Masao | |
List of Contributors | |
Bibliography | |
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