Format:
Online-Ressource (289 p)
ISBN:
9780700715800
Series Statement:
Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism
Content:
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, is shown to
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; ZEN WAR STORIES; Copyright; CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Part I; 1 THE ZEN MASTER WEPT; 2 MONKS AND SOLDIERS MOVE ON THEIR STOMACHS; 3 THE ZEN OF ASSASSINATION; 4 ŌMORI SŌGEN: The Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde of Zen; 5 ZEN MASTER DŌGEN GOES TO WAR: The militarist and anti-Semitic writings of Yasutani Haku'un; 6 CARRYING ZEN TO CHINA; 7 ZEN "SELFLESSNESS" IN JAPANESE MILITARISM; SECTION ONE: THE GENERAL AND THE ZEN MASTER; SECTION TWO: ZEN - THE FOUNDATION OF MILITARY SPIRIT; Part II; 8 BUDDHIST WAR BEREAVEMENT; 9 CONFESSIONS OF A BUDDHIST CHAPLAIN
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10 BUDDHISM - THE LAST REFUGE OF WAR CRIMINALSSECTION ONE: COLONEL TSUJI MASANOBU GOES UNDERGROUND; SECTION TWO: FINDING RELIGION ON DEATH ROW; 11 BUDDHISM - A TOP SECRET RELIGION IN WARTIME JAPAN; EPILOGUE; POSTSCRIPT; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781136127625
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780700715800
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Zen War Stories
Language:
English
Keywords:
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