Offers alternative approaches to the study of colonial and postcolonial Korean Buddhism, suggesting new directions for scholarship.

A comprehensive treatment of the shared traditions of Chan, Sŏn, and Zen in dynamic interaction across East Asia, acknowledging the changing and growing parameters of the field of Zen studies.

Explores language and mysticism, Buddhism and Zen, Christianity, comparative religion, psychedelics, and psychology and psychotherapy.

Robert Baker Aitken’s correspondence with Buddhist sympathizers and solo practitioners reveals a significant, little-understood aspect of American Buddhism.

An overview of Korean Buddhism and its major figures in the modern period.

Insights into the experience and philosophy of Buddhism from a Korean perspective.

Explores how spiritual values are learned and mind and body developed through the practice of the Japanese arts.

Offers the most comprehensive collection of Basho's prose available, beautifully translated into English.

A rich and detailed autobiography of one Japanese woman’s journey through life.

The author interprets Zen Master Shunryu Suzuki's account of Zen practice from a Kantian perspective in order to explore the deep connection between Zen meditation, or zazen, and respect for universal ...