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When Shunryu Suzuki Roshi's Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind was published in 1972, it was enthusiastically embraced by Westerners eager for spiritual insight and knowledge of Zen. The book became the most successful treatise on Buddhism in English, selling more than one million copies to date. Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness is the first follow-up volume to Suzuki Roshi's important work. Like Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, it is a collection of lectures that reveal the insight, humor, and intimacy with Zen that made Suzuki Roshi so influential as a teacher. The Sandokai-a poem by the eighth-century Zen master Sekito Kisen (Ch. Shitou Xiqian)-is the subject of these lectures. Given in 1970 at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, the lectures are an example of a Zen teacher in his prime elucidating a venerated, ancient, and difficult work to his Western students. The poem addresses the question of how the oneness of things and the multiplicity of things coexist (or, as Suzuki Roshi expresses it, "things-as-it-is"). Included with the lectures are his students' questions and his direct answers to them, along with a meditation instruction. Suzuki Roshi's teachings are valuable not only for those with a general interest in Buddhism but also for students of Zen practice wanting an example of how a modern master in the Japanese Soto Zen tradition understands this core text today.

Zen Buddhism --- Doctrines. --- Sekito Kisen --- Kisen, Sekito --- 1970. --- beauty. --- buddhism. --- buddhist poetry. --- buddhist teachings. --- buddhists. --- collection of lectures. --- eastern philosophy. --- japan. --- japanese buddhism. --- life journey. --- meditation instructions. --- modern buddhism. --- nonfiction. --- oneness. --- philosophy. --- question and answer. --- religious treatise. --- sandokai. --- soto zen tradition. --- spiritual insight. --- spiritualism. --- spirituality and religion. --- students and teachers. --- western students. --- world religions. --- zen buddhism. --- zen masters. --- zen practices. --- zen teachers. --- zen.

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A complex body of religious practices that spread throughout the Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain traditions; a form of spirituality that seemingly combines sexuality, sensual pleasure, and the full range of physical experience with the religious life-Tantra has held a central yet conflicted role within the Western imagination ever since the first "discovery" of Indian religions by European scholars. Always radical, always extremely Other, Tantra has proven a key factor in the imagining of India. This book offers a critical account of how the phenomenon has come to be. Tracing the complex genealogy of Tantra as a category within the history of religions, Hugh B. Urban reveals how it has been formed through the interplay of popular and scholarly imaginations. Tantra emerges as a product of mirroring and misrepresentation at work between East and West--a dialectical category born out of the ongoing play between Western and Indian minds. Combining historical detail, textual analysis, popular cultural phenomena, and critical theory, this book shows Tantra as a shifting amalgam of fantasies, fears, and wish-fulfillment, at once native and Other, that strikes at the very heart of our constructions of the exotic Orient and the contemporary West.

Tantric Buddhism. --- Tantrism. --- Buddhism, Tantric --- Buddhist tantrism --- Esoteric Buddhism --- Mantrayāna Buddhism --- Mikkyō --- Tantrism, Buddhist --- Vajrayāna Buddhism --- Buddhism --- Mahayana Buddhism --- Tantricism --- Tantrism, Hindu --- Hinduism --- Magic --- Mysticism --- anthropology. --- buddhism. --- buddhist tradition. --- comparative religion. --- contemporary religion. --- critical theory. --- cultural phenomena. --- east and west. --- eastern philosophy. --- european scholars. --- faith and spirituality. --- hinduism. --- india. --- indian religions. --- jainism. --- nonfiction. --- physical experiences. --- political power. --- religious lives. --- religious practices. --- religious secrecy. --- religious studies. --- sensuality. --- sex. --- sexual politics. --- sexuality. --- tantra. --- western thought. --- western world. --- world religions.

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In late classical and early medieval China, ascetics strove to become transcendents--deathless beings with supernormal powers. Practitioners developed dietetic, alchemical, meditative, gymnastic, sexual, and medicinal disciplines (some of which are still practiced today) to perfect themselves and thus transcend death. Narratives of their achievements circulated widely. Ge Hong (283-343 C.E..) collected and preserved many of their stories in his Traditions of Divine Transcendents, affording us a window onto this extraordinary response to human mortality. Robert Ford Company's groundbreaking and carefully researched text offers the first complete, critical translation and commentary for this important Chinese religious work, at the same time establishing a method for reconstructing lost texts from medieval China. Clear, exacting, and annotated, the translation comprises over a hundred lively, engaging narratives of individuals deemed to have fought death and won. Additionally, To Live as Long as Heaven and Earth systematically introduces the Chinese quest for transcendence, illuminating a poorly understood tradition that was an important source of Daoist religion and a major social, cultural, and religious phenomenon in its own right.

Taoists --- Ge, Hong, --- Taoists - China - Biography --- Ge, Hong, - 284-364. - Shen xian zhuan --- alchemy. --- ancient china. --- archival work. --- ascetics. --- buddhism. --- china. --- chinese history. --- chinese texts. --- classicism. --- daoism. --- discipline. --- divinity. --- eastern philosophy. --- gymnastics. --- immortals. --- lost texts. --- medicine. --- medieval china. --- meditation. --- mortality. --- nonfiction. --- paranormal. --- philosophy. --- religion. --- sexual discipline. --- sexual practices. --- spirituality. --- supernatural being. --- supernatural powers. --- supernatural. --- taoism. --- to live as long as heaven and earth. --- traditions of the divine transcendents. --- transcend death. --- transcendents. --- transfiguration.

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Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki was a key figure in the introduction of Buddhism to the non-Asian world. Many outside Japan encountered Buddhism for the first time through his writings and teaching, and for nearly a century his work and legacy have contributed to the ongoing religious and cultural interchange between Japan and the rest of the world, particularly the United States and Europe. This second volume of Selected Works of D. T. Suzuki brings together Suzuki's writings on Pure Land Buddhism. At the center of the Pure Land tradition is the Buddha Amida and his miraculous realm known as paradise or "the land of bliss," where sentient beings should aspire to be born in their next life and where liberation and enlightenment are assured. Suzuki, by highlighting certain themes in Pure Land Buddhism and deemphasizing others, shifted its focus from a future, otherworldly goal to religious experience in the present, wherein one realizes the nonduality between the Buddha and oneself and between paradise and this world. An introduction by James C. Dobbins analyzes Suzuki's cogent, distinctive, and thought-provoking interpretations, which helped stimulate new understandings of Pure Land Buddhism quite different from traditional doctrine.

Zen Buddhism. --- Chʻan Buddhism --- Dhyāna (Sect) --- Zen --- Zen (Sect) --- Buddhism --- Mahayana Buddhism --- Suzuki, Daisetz Teitaro, --- Suzuki, Daisetsu --- Suzuki, D.T. --- 鈴木大拙貞太郎 --- 鈴木貞太郎 --- buddha amida. --- buddhism. --- buddhist sacred writings. --- chan. --- daisetsu teitaro suzuki. --- dt suzuki. --- enlightenment. --- far eastern philosophy. --- infinite light. --- japan. --- japanese author. --- japanese spirituality. --- koan exercise. --- liberation. --- myokonin. --- non asian world. --- otherworldly goal. --- paradise. --- philosophy. --- pure land buddhism. --- religion. --- religious doctrine. --- religious teachings. --- retrospective. --- shin. --- shinran shonin. --- spiritual. --- spirituality. --- teachings. --- the land of bliss. --- thought provoking. --- traditional doctrine. --- zen.

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Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki was a key figure in the introduction of Buddhism to the non-Asian world. Many outside Japan encountered Buddhism for the first time through his writings and teaching, and for nearly a century his work and legacy have contributed to the ongoing religious and cultural interchange between Japan and the rest of the world, particularly the United States and Europe. This third volume of Selected Works of D. T. Suzuki brings together a diverse collection of Suzuki's letters, essays, and lectures about non-Buddhist religions and his thoughts on their relation to Buddhism, as well as his reflections on the nature of religion itself. Some of these writings have been translated into English for the first time in this volume. As a long-term resident of the United States, a world traveler, and a voracious consumer of information about all forms of religion, Suzuki was one of the foremost Japanese mediators of Eastern and Western religious cultures for nearly seven decades. An introduction by Jeff Wilson and Tomoe Moriya analyzes Suzuki's frequent encounters with texts and practitioners of many religions, considers how events in Suzuki's lifetime affected his interpretations of Christianity, Shinto, and other traditions, and demonstrates that his legacy as a scholar extends well beyond Buddhism.

Zen Buddhism. --- Chʻan Buddhism --- Dhyāna (Sect) --- Zen --- Zen (Sect) --- Buddhism --- Mahayana Buddhism --- Suzuki, Daisetz Teitaro, --- Suzuki, Daisetsu --- Suzuki, D.T. --- 鈴木大拙貞太郎 --- 鈴木貞太郎 --- academic. --- anthology. --- asia. --- buddhism. --- buddhist. --- christianity. --- collected works. --- culture. --- eastern philosophy. --- eastern religion. --- essays. --- japan. --- japanese buddhism. --- japanese buddhist. --- japanese culture. --- lectures. --- legacy. --- letters. --- mediators. --- religion. --- religious figure. --- religious philosophy. --- scholar. --- selected works. --- shinto. --- single author. --- tradition. --- western culture. --- western religion. --- western world. --- world religion.