Editorial Note

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction xiii
5. Editorial Note xxxi
6. 1. Letter to Paul Carus (1896) 1
7. 2. Selections from Shin shūkyō ron (A New Interpretation of Religion) 3
8. 3. Letter to Paul Carus (1897) 29
9. 4. Christianity in Japan 31
10. 5. Confucius: A Study of His Character and History 35
11. 6. Selection from A Brief History of Early Chinese Philosophy 41
12. 7. Selections from Suedenborugu (Swedenborg) 52
13. 8. Zen, the Spiritual Heritage of the East 60
14. 9. A Contemporary Buddhist View of Shinto 65
15. 10. Swedenborg’s View of Heaven and “Other-Power” 73
16. 11. Selection from Ignorance and World Fellowship 80
17. 12. Zen and the Study of Confucianism (Selection from Zen and Its Influence on Japanese Culture) 91
18. 13. What Is Religion? 102
19. 14. Selections from Japanese Spirituality 106
20. 15. Tea-Room Meditations 126
21. 16. Selections from Essays in Zen Buddhism (First Series) 135
22. 17. The Predicament of Modern Man 140
23. 18. The Analytic and Synthetic Approach to Buddhism 143
24. 19. The Answer Is in the Question 150
25. 20. The Hands 157
26. 21. Letter to Mr. Tatsuguchi 161
27. 22. Review of Meditation and Piety in the Far East 163
28. 23. Selections from Mysticism: Christian and Buddhist 168
29. 24. Love and Power 194
30. 25. Letter to Thomas Merton 199
31. 26. Wisdom in Emptiness 201
32. 27. Open Letter to President Kennedy and Premier Khrushchev 226
33. 28. Buddhism and Other Religions 230
34. 29. Religion and Drugs 233
35. Notes 239
36. Glossary of Chinese and Japanese Terms 255
37. Bibliography 267
38. Index 273