Zen war stories / Brian Daizen Victoria.

By:

Victoria, Daizen, 1939-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: RoutledgeCurzon critical studies in BuddhismPublication details: London ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2003.Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 268 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781136127625
1136127623
9780203037423
0203037421
9781136127786
113612778X
9781136127700
1136127704
1283886464
9781283886468

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Zen war stories.DDC classification:

940.53/52/0882943 22

LOC classification:

D810.B839 V53 2003eb

Other classification:

11.93
15.75

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Contents:

The Zen Master wept -- Monks and soldiers move on their stomachs -- The Zen of assassination -- Ōmori Sōgen : the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde of Zen -- Zen Master Dōgen goes to war : the militarist and anti-semitic writings of Yasutani Haku'un -- Carrying Zen to China -- Zen "selflessness" in Japanese militarism. The general and the Zen Master ; Zen : the foundation of military spirit -- Buddhist war bereavement -- Confessions of a Buddhist chaplain -- Buddhism : the last refuge of war criminals. Colonel Tsuji Masanobu goes underground ; Finding religion on death row -- Buddhism : a top secret religion in wartime Japan.

Summary: Following the critically acclaimed Zen at War (1997), Brian Victoria explores the intimate relationship between Japanese institutional Buddhism and militarism during the Second World War. Victoria reveals for the first time, through examination of the wartime writings of the Japanese military itself, that the Zen school's view of life and death was deliberately incorporated into the military's programme of 'spiritual education' in order to develop a fanatical military spirit in both soldiers and civilians. Furthermore, that D.T. Suzuki, the most famous exponent of Zen in the West.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-257) and index.

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Following the critically acclaimed Zen at War (1997), Brian Victoria explores the intimate relationship between Japanese institutional Buddhism and militarism during the Second World War. Victoria reveals for the first time, through examination of the wartime writings of the Japanese military itself, that the Zen school's view of life and death was deliberately incorporated into the military's programme of 'spiritual education' in order to develop a fanatical military spirit in both soldiers and civilians. Furthermore, that D.T. Suzuki, the most famous exponent of Zen in the West.

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