History of Zen Buddhism (363P)
A HISTORY OF BUDDHISM Heinrich Dumoulin, S.J. Translated from the German by Paul Peachey PANTHEON BOOKS A Division of Random House New York A HISTORY OF ZEN BUDDHISM A HISTORY OF BUDDHISM Heinrich Dumoulin, S.J. Translated from the German by Paul Peachey PANTHEON BOOKS A Division of Random House New York © Copyright, 1963, by Random House, Inc. © 1959 by A. Francke AG Verlag All rights reserved under International and Pan- American Copyright Conventions. Published in New York by Pantheon Books, a Division of Random House, Inc., and simultaneously in Toronto, Canada, by Random House of Canada, Limited. Library of Congress Card Catalog Number 62-17386 Manufactured in the United States of America. by H. Wolff, New York Preface Interest in Zen Buddhism has grown continually since this book was first published in German. Although it was then thought necessary to preface the work with some remarks for the benefit of Western readers about Zen and its living values, a general knowledge of Zen Buddhism can now be presupposed. To be sure, this knowledge is often and in many respects inadequate, distorted, or even altogether false. In the wake of the ‘'Zen boom” in the United States, there originated “ Beat Zen,” “ Square Zen,” and other distorted forms which must be con sidered caricatures rather than true expressions of Zen Buddhism. A French scholar who had lived in Asia for many years once said to me: “ One has to distinguish between Buddhism in Asia and Buddhism for Europeans.” This very relevant remark applies to Zen Buddhism as well. Zen Buddhism in Asia can only be under stood in terms of its Asian development—its origin in China, most likely in the sixth century, the meditation tradition of a thousand years' duration upon which it was based, and its thir teenth-century transplantation to Japan where it reached its fullest and highest development.
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