Zen and Western thought /

Abe, Masao, 1915-

Zen and Western thought / by Masao Abe ; edited by William R. LaFleur ; foreword by John Hick. - Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, 1985. - xxiv, 308 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 276-289.

Zen is not a philosophy, but-- -- Dōgen on Buddha-nature -- True person and compassion : D. T. Suzuki's appreciation of Lin-chi and Chao-chou -- Zen and Western thought -- Non-being and mu : the metaphysical nature of negativity in the East and the West -- Zen and Nietzsche -- Mahayana Buddhism and Whitehead -- Tillich from a Buddhist point of view -- Self-awakening and faith : Zen and Christianity -- Buddhist nirvana : its significance in contemporary thought and life -- The idea of purity in Mahayana Buddhism -- Emptiness is suchness -- Religion challenged by modern thought -- Religion and science in the global age : their essential character and mutual relationship -- Sovereignty rests with mankind -- The end of world religion.

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Zen Buddhism--Doctrines.
Philosophy, Comparative.
Buddhism and philosophy.

BQ9268.7 / .A34 1985