Zen and Zen Classics
R.H. Blyth, Frederick FranckReginald Horace Blyth (1898 – 1964) was one of the foremost interpreters of Zen in the West. He was a close friend and collaborator with Zen master D. T. Suzuki. This Englishman went to Japan in 1940 to continue his study of Zen and was interned as an enemy alien during World War II. Afterwards, he was appointed tutor to the Japanese Crown Prince. His most famous work is the five volume Zen and Zen Classics, published in the 1960s. Frederick Franck, the artist and spiritual seeker, has assembled this wonderful crosscut of Blyth’s writings. In his introduction, he characterizes the Englishman as a free spirit with a sense of humor, a Master who has the eye that never sleeps, a Westerner who never discarded his Christian roots, a persistent analyzer of That Which Matters, a visionary, and a poet.
| status | Copy #1 (8776): in |
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| genre | Spirituality » Buddhism |
| publisher | Vintage Books |
| publish date | 1978 |
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