Zen Pioneer: The Life and Works of Ruth Fuller Sasaki - Softcover

Stirling, Isabel

 
9781593761707: Zen Pioneer: The Life and Works of Ruth Fuller Sasaki
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1593761708 ISBN 13: 9781593761707
Verlag: Catapult, 2007

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Ruth Fuller Sasaki, who died in 1967, was a pivotal figure in the emergence and development of Zen Buddhism in the United States. She is the only Westerner — and woman — to be made a priest of a Daitoku–ji temple and was mentor to Burton Watson, Philip Yampolsky, and Gary Snyder, and mother–in–law of Alan Watts. This is the first biography of her remarkable life.

Few devoted their lives to Zen Buddhism as Ruth Fuller did. As a senior student of Sokei — an Sasaki in New York — Ruth helped him develop the infrastructure of what would eventually become The First Zen Institute in New York City. She married Sasaki in 1944, and it was her mission to maintain the Institute and later, to establish The First Zen Institute of America in Japan. Her legacy remains today in the Zen facilities she helped build in New York and abroad and in the many texts she saw through translation, published from the 1950s to the 1970s. For the first time in book form, three of her writings are included here — Zen: A Religion, Zen: A Method for Religious Awakening, and Rinzai Zen Study for Foreigners in Japan.

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Isabel Stirling became active in international librarianship during her years as science librarian and professor at the University of Oregon, traveling several times to China and Japan. On one of her trips to Japan that she was invited to stay at Ryosen-an, where Ruth Sasaki had developed her formidable library. Stirling is Associate University Librarian of the University of California, Berkeley, and makes her home in Sausalito, CA.

Gary Snyder is the author of more than twenty collections of poetry and prose. Since 1970 he has lived in the watershed of the South Yuba River in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1975, Snyder has also been awarded the Bollingen Prize for Poetry and the Robert Kirsch Lifetime Achievement Award. His 1992 collection, No Nature, was a National Book Award finalist, and in 2008 he received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. Snyder is a poet, environmentalist, educator and Zen Buddhist.

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Verlag
Catapult
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1593761708
ISBN 13 
9781593761707
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Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
328
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