Description
Over the course of Zen's development in China and Japan, the sayings and episodes of the masters have formed a huge collection of literature. Designed to put these writings within easy reach of serious students for inspiration and understanding, this glossary provides 5,500 entries on Zen terms, names of persons, texts, idiomatic expressions, references to Chinese classics, general Buddhist terms, and even particles and other parts of speech considered important in grasping the original intent and meaning.
Hisao Inagaki received a PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and is a professor at Ryukoku University in Kyoto, Japan.
Author: Hisao Inagaki
Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
Published: 10/11/2016
Pages: 560
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.85lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.90w x 1.80d
ISBN13: 9781611720280
ISBN10: 1611720281
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Buddhism | Zen (see also Philosophy | Zen)
- Philosophy | Zen
- Philosophy | Reference
About the Author
HISAO INAGAKI is a graduate of Kobe City University of Foreign Languages (B.A.) and Ryukoku University (M.A.). With the award of a British Council scholarship, he spent two years in England from 1966 and received his Ph.D. in 1968 from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He returned to the School the following year with an appointment as lecturer in Buddhism and held this post until 1981. He is now a professor at Ryukoku University, Kyoto. He was appointed to the Numata professorship at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1985, at the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 1989, and at Leiden University in 1992.