Table of Contents

Preface IIGeneral Remarks on Japanese Art Culture IIIZen and the Study of Confucianism IVZen and the Samurai VZen and Swordsmanship I VIZen and Swordsmanship II VIIZen and Haiku VIIIZen and the Art of Tea I IXZen and the Art of Tea II XRikyu and Other Teamen XILove of Nature Appendices ITwo Mondo from the "Hekigan-shu" IIThe Vimalakirti Sutra III"Yama-uba," a No Play IVThe Swordsman and the Cat VChuang-tzu Bibliography Index

About the Author

Daisetz T. Suzuki, Japan's foremost authority on Zen Buddhism and author of over a hundred books on the subject, died in Tokyo in 1966 at the age of 95. He befriended and influenced such thinkers as C. G. Jung, Erich Fromm, Martin Heidegger, Karl Jaspers, Arnold Toynbee, Gabriel Marcel, Herbert Read, and Thomas Merton.

Reviews

As one turns the pages of this delightful book, one seems to catch intimations of how and why certain aspects of the "spirit of Zen' are making themselves felt in America today... The New York Times