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  Buddhist & Western Psychological Methodologies
.... wholeness. The three principal Buddhist methods (Vipassana, Zen, and Vajrayana) have much in common with Western psychotherapy. Buddhist ....
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Zen Buddhism: Characteristics and Origins
.... difficulties, it appears that Ch'an or Zen Enlightenment is at least highly similar to the ecstatic experiences undergone by such renowned Western mystics as ....
(2132 9 )

Zen Buddhism & the Arts
.... Although the practice of Zen is in some ways analogous to the practice of Western religions, it is also in fundamentally important ways divorced from the ....
(4140 17 )

History of Zen Buddhism
.... 114-116). Abe, Masao. (1985). Zen and western thought. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. Furlong, Monica. (1986). Zen effects: The life of Alan Watts. ....
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Essential Zen
.... meaning. Logic is irrelevant. The principles of Zen are very applicable to modern society, including modern western society. If ....
(2405 10 )

Buddhism
.... is not religious in any Western sense but is allied with Western concepts of both philosophy and science: More than any Western religion, Zen Buddhism is like ....
(1639 7 )

The Mystery of Zen
.... I might also get a little bit closer to knowing what Zen insight might be. .... descent (but not German) and was probably raised in a conventional Western religion. ....
(881 4 )

Zen and Socrates
.... But whereas Western culture since the Enlightenment has been primarily rationalist, in .... Zen and the Socrates the man share much that is essential, although they ....
(1100 4 )

The books of the Bible
.... In that text, Watts describes Westerners who "convert" to Zen consciously or unconsciously frame or manipulate their enactment of Zen with Western values and ....
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The Buddhist Tradition in India, China, and Japan: A Review
.... after death to the Western Paradise. The Ch'an school is the one that became most popular with intellectuals, and that would be imported into Japan as Zen. ....
(1608 6 )

Modern Occultism & New Age Thought
.... In his discussion explanation of what he calls the beat Zen and square Zen of Western Christians, Alan Watts remarks that Westerners who "convert" to Zen ....
(5828 23 )

The Buddha's Wheel of Birth and Death
.... New York: Heine, S. "The Meaning of Death in Psychoanalysis, Existential Phenomenology, and Dogen Zen." In Buddhist- and Western Psychology. Ed. Nathan Katz. ....
(1733 7 )

Taoism & Tai Chi
.... Taoism started to be of significant interest in the West during the late 1950s and 1960s, when an interest in Zen Buddhism arose among Western intellectuals. ....
(1199 5 )

Economics as Ethnocentric
.... On the other hand, relying on the Buddhist believe in Zen, Sahlins argues that the .... or even abundant (1972, p. 2). Sahlins' use of the Western-Eastern dichotomy ....
(1521 6 )

Mystical Experiences The purpose of this resear
.... That is, beat Zen or square Zen is, perhaps unconsciously, framed or manipulated by Western values and preconceptions. Westerners ....
(1570 6 )

Mystical Experience The purpose of this resear
.... That is, beat Zen or square Zen is, perhaps unconsciously, framed or manipulated by Western values and preconceptions. Westerners ....
(1570 6 )

Martial arts and History
.... Noon , The Matrix, The Crow or Blade, to name a few, transmitting the Confucianist, Daoist and Zen Buddhist blend of value systems into a Western form aimed at ....
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Human Experience of God & Paul Tillich
.... this is so can perhaps best be explained with reference to Alan Watts's seminal article on what he termed the beat Zen and square Zen of Western Christians in ....
(7446 30 )

The American composer John Cage
.... woman from India named Gita Sarabhai, who was interested in studying Western music .... In the late 1940s, Cage began attending classes with the Zen Buddhist master ....
(3332 13 )

Inazo Nitobe's Bushido: The Soul of Japan
.... Nitobe writes to explain The Soul of Japan to Western friends and colleagues. .... to Nitobe, bushido's roots lie in the calm trust in fate of Zen Buddhism, the ....
(1845 7 )

Paths to Enlightenment
.... Darkness: Tara and the Black Madonna, by China Galland, and Zen and the .... Although both authors include many elements of Western religion and thought (especially ....
(1313 5 )

Women in Japanese Religion
.... One of these emphasized the Pure Land, or Western Paradise, of the Buddha Amida. .... preferred a different sort of Buddhism, the form known as Zen, introduced from ....
(2921 12 )

Pirsig and Technical Writing
Everything and everyone has a Buddha nature within Zen. .... Western thought sees and depicts nature in man-made terms and symmetries among super-imposed forms. ....
(1229 5 )

Contributions of Buddhism to the Asian Culture
.... With today's trendy emphasis on Zen Buddhism (a branch that concentrates more on .... Buddhism has been adopted, or at least accepted by many Western societies also ....
(1310 5 )

Poetry & Attitudes Toward Nature
.... also touches upon how the how the industrialization of the western world contributed .... Like Shakespeare, the Zen poet Basho divided his time between the Japan's ....
(880 4 )

Buddhism: A Way of Life & Thought
.... This Western knowledge does not extend much beyond the superficial, however. .... Zen is the simplest form of Buddhism: There is in truth no goal to be attained. ....
(1530 6 )

Survey of World Religions
.... Buddhism processed through Chinese Taoism becomes Japanese Zen" (Smith, Religions .... These three Western religions share many beliefs which differ dramatically ....
(2928 12 )

Buddhist Faith in Different Countries
.... In 1960, Roshi Suzuki and Alan Watts made Zen a household world and .... Asian Buddhists bound by language, tradition, and ritual, while Western Buddhists focused ....
(2427 10 )

Forms of Buddhism in Different Countries
.... In 1960, Roshi Suzuki and Alan Watts made Zen a household world and .... Asian Buddhists bound by language, tradition, and ritual, while Western Buddhists focused ....
(2441 10 )

Buddhism in the United States
.... In 1960, Roshi Suzuki and Alan Watts made Zen a household word and .... Asian Buddhists bound by language, tradition, and ritual, while Western Buddhists focused ....
(4192 17 )

 
 
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