Senzaki Nyogen

Senzaki Nyogen ( Japanese千 崎 如幻; * 1876 ; † 1958 ) was a Japanese Rinzai - Zen master and is considered to be one of the key figures in the transmission of Zen Buddhism to the West .

Life

Senzaki moved from Japan to the USA in 1905 and founded the first Zen Dōjō in San Francisco in 1928 . Senzaki's teacher was Soen Shaku, who first introduced Zen Buddhism to the United States in 1893 at the World Congress of Religions and was also a teacher of DT Suzuki . Robert Aitken is one of his students. Together with Ruth Strout McCandless he wrote the book No Traces in Water , an Introduction to Zen. The core of the book is the translation and commentary on a classic text by Yoka-daishi . In the course of his later life, Senzaki, in collaboration with others, translated numerous texts from the tradition of Zen Buddhism into English and often explained them in order to pass on Zen as he understood it.

Works

In English

• Kōken Murano: Buddha and His Disciples (A Guide to Buddhism). Tokyo 1932. (With a foreword and an addition with nine essays and speeches by Senzaki).
• N. Senzaki, S. Reps: The Gateless Gate. Los Angeles 1934.
• N. Senzaki, S. Reps: Ten Bulls. Los Angeles 1935.
• N. Sensaki: On Zen Meditation. What a Buddhist Monk in America Said. Kyoto 1936.
• Kōken Murano: What American Buddhist Pioneers Think. Japan 1939.
• N. Senzaki, Paul Reps: 101 Zen Stories. Philadelphia 1940.
• N. Senzaki, Ruth Strout McCandless: Buddhism and Zen. New York 1953.
• Paul Reps (Ed.): Zen Flesh, Zen Bones. A Collection of Zen and Pre-Zen Writings. Rutland, Vermont, 1957. (Contains the three books The Gateless Gate, Ten Bulls. And 101 Zen Stories. )
• N. Senzaki, Ruth Strout McCandless: The Iron Flute: One Hundred Zen Kōan with Commentary by Genrō, Fūgai, and Nyogen. With drawings by Toriichi Murashima, Rutland, Vermont, 1964.
• Louis Nordstrom (Ed.) Namu Dai Bosa. A Transmission of Zen Buddhism to America by Nyogen Senzaki, Sōen Nakagawa, Eidō Shimano. New York 1976. (With biographical data, poems and thirty essays by Senzaki and photos)
• Eidō Shimano (Ed.): Like a Dream, Like a Fantasy: The Zen Writings of Nyogen Senzaki. Tokyo 1998. (speeches, essays, translations and poems)

In German

• N. Senzaki / Ruth Strout McCandless: Genro. The Hundred Zen Koans of the "Iron Flute". Zurich 1973.
• N. Sensaki / Ruth Strout McCandless: No traces in the water. An introduction to Zen. Zurich, Munich 1992. (Translation of the original American edition of Buddhism and Zen. Berkeley 1987).
• Paul Reps (ed.): Without words - without silence. Bern 1976. (Translation by Zen Flesh, Zen Bones ).

literature

• Robert Aitken: Nyogen Senzaki. An American hotei. In: Nyogen Sensaki, Ruth Strout McCandless: No traces in the water. An introduction to Zen. Theseus Verlag , Zurich, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-85936-052-3 , pp. 7-18.

Web links

• Literature by and about Senzaki Nyogen in the catalog of the German National Library

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Senzaki is the family name, Nyogen the first name.