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Mysticism: Christian and Buddhist

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2003
ISBN
0415285852, 9780415285858, 0203217853, 9780203217856, 9780203294529
LCC
BL625 . S85 2002b
Google Books ID
YOl7C0OoX9MC
Open Library ID
OL16866573M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
607 kB (621685 bytes)
Series
Routledge Classics
Edition
2
Pages
209\209
Topic
Religion
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-04-11 19:55:47

Description

If the Western world knows anything about Zen Buddhism, it is down to the efforts of one remarkable man, D.T. Suzuki. The twenty-seven year-old Japanese scholar first visited the West in 1897, and over the course of the next seventy years became the world's leading authority on Zen. His radical and penetrating insights earned him many disciples, from Carl Jung to Allen Ginsberg, from Thomas Merton to John Cage. In Mysticism: Christian and Buddhist Suzuki compares the teachings of the great Christian mystic Meister Eckhart with the spiritual wisdom of Shin and Zen Buddhism. By juxtaposing cultures that seem to be radically opposed, Suzuki raises one of the fundamental questions of human experience: at the limits of our understanding is there an experience that is universal to all humanity? Mysticism: Christian and Buddhist is a book that challenges and inspires; it will benefit readers of all religions who seek to understand something of the nature of spiritual life.

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