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The Way of Zen is a 1957 non-fiction book on Zen Buddhism and Eastern philosophy by philosopher and religious scholar Alan Watts. It was a bestseller and played a major role in introducing Buddhism to a mostly young, Western audience.
Zen texts also stress the concept of non-duality (Skt: advaya, Ch: bùèr 不二, Jp: funi), which is an important theme in Zen literature and is explained in various different ways. [200] One set of themes is the non-dual unity of the absolute and the relative truths (which derives from the classic Buddhist theme of the two truths).
Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973) was a British and American writer, speaker, and self-styled "philosophical entertainer", [2] known for interpreting and popularising Buddhist, Taoist, and Hindu philosophy for a Western audience.
The Śramaṇa movement gave rise to a diverse range of non-Vedic ideas, ranging from accepting or denying the concepts of atman, atomism, materialism, atheism, agnosticism, fatalism to free will, extreme asceticism, strict ahimsa (non-violence) and vegetarianism. [65]
Mysticism: Christian and Buddhist: The Eastern and Western Way, Macmillan, 1957. "A study of the qualities Meister Eckhart shares with Zen and Shin Buddhism". Includes translation of myokonin Saichi's poems. Zen and Japanese Culture, New York: Pantheon Books, 1959. A classic. Zen Buddhism and Psychoanalysis, Erich Fromm, D. T. Suzuki, and De ...
Schlütter, Morten (2008), How Zen became Zen: The Dispute over Enlightenment and the Formation of Chan Buddhism in Song-Dynasty China, Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, ISBN 978-0-8248-3508-8 Watson, Burton (1999), The Zen Teachings of Master Lin-Chi: A Translation of the Lin-chi lu , New York: Columbia University Press, ISBN 0-231-11485-0
Zeno was born c. 334 BC, [a] in the colony of Citium in Cyprus. [4] [5] His ancestry is disputed between Phoenician and Greek, [6] [7] because Citium contained both Phoenician and Greek inhabitants.
Timeline of Eastern | Western philosophers This is a wide-ranging chronological list of philosophers from the Eastern traditions of philosophy, with special interest in Indo-Chinese philosophy. The list stops at the year 1950, after which philosophers fall into the category of contemporary philosophy .