Nyogen Senzaki

Senzaki Nyogen (Japanese千 崎 如幻; * 1876, † 1958) was a Japanese Rinzai Zen master and is considered a key figure in the transmission of Zen Buddhism to the West.

Life

Senzaki moved in 1905 from Japan to the USA and founded in 1928, the first Zen dojo in San Francisco. Senzakis teacher Soen Shaku was that at the World Congress of Religions was first introduced in 1893 Zen Buddhism in the United States and also a teacher of DT Suzuki was. Robert Aitken is one of his students. Together with Ruth Strout McCandless, he has written the book No traces in the water, an introduction to Zen. Core of the book is a translation and commentary of a classical text of Yoka - Daishi. Senzaki translated in the course of his later life in collaboration with other numerous texts of the tradition of Zen Buddhism into English and explained this often to Zen, as he understood it to pass.

Works (selection)

  • Koken Murano: Buddha and His Disciples ( A Guide to Buddhism ). Tokyo 1932. ( With a preface and an additional nine essays and speeches by Senzaki ).
  • N. Senzaki, p Reps: The Gateless gate. Los Angeles 1934.
  • N. Senzaki, p Reps: Ten Bulls. Los Angeles 1935.
  • N. Sensaki: On Zen meditation. What a Buddhist Monk in America Said. Kyoto 1936.
  • Koken Murano: What American Buddhist Pioneers Think. Japan 1939.
  • N. Senzaki, Paul Reps: 101 Zen Stories. Philadelphia 1940.
  • N. Senzaki, Ruth Strout McCandless: Buddhism and Zen. New York 1953.
  • Paul Reps (ed.): Zen Flesh, Zen Bones. A Collection of Zen and Pre- Zen Writings. Rutland, Vermont, 1957. (Contains in one volume the three books The Gateless Gate, Ten Bulls., And 101 Zen Stories. )
  • N. Senzaki, Ruth Strout McCandless: The Iron Flute: One Hundred Zen Kōan with Commentary by genro, Fugai, and Nyogen. With drawings by Toriichi Murashima, Rutland, Vermont, 1964.
  • Louis Nordstrom (ed.) Namu Dai Bosa. A Transmission of Zen Buddhism to America by Nyogen Senzaki, Soen Nakagawa, Eido Shimano. New York 1976. ( With biographical information, poems and thirty essays by Senzaki and photos)
  • Eido Shimano ( ed.): Like a Dream, Like a Fantasy: The Zen Writings of Nyogen Senzaki. Tokyo 1998. (Speeches, essays, translations and poems)
  • N. Senzaki / Ruth Strout McCandless: genro. The hundred Zen koans of the " Iron Flute ". Zurich 1973.
  • N. Sensaki / Ruth Strout McCandless: No traces in the water. An Introduction to Zen. Zurich, Munich 1992. ( Translation of the original American edition of Buddhism and Zen. Berkeley 1987).
  • Paul Reps (ed. ): Without Words - Without silence. Bern 1976. (Translation of Zen Flesh, Zen Bones ).
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