鈴木大拙コロンビア大学講義録 Spreading Indra's Net : The Columbia Lectures of D. T. Suzuki

Suzuki, D. T./ Jaffe, Richard M. (EDT)/ Sōiku, Shigematsu (EDT)

Columbia University Press（2025/08発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 384 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780231192866
• DDC分類 294.3927

Full Description

D. T. Suzuki's 1950s lectures at Columbia University were foundational for the postwar Zen boom. Speaking softly in a bookcase-lined room, Suzuki, then in his eighties, introduced East Asian Buddhism to a rapt audience of the general public, scholars, and students. He offered a distinctive interpretation of Zen, weaving together his understanding of classical Buddhist texts, especially the Flower Garland Sutra, with Christian mysticism, psychology, and twentieth-century European and American philosophy. The freewheeling lectures captivated listeners drawn from the New York intelligentsia and art world—including Carolyn Brown, John Cage, Arthur Danto, Sari Dienes, Erich Fromm, Phillip Guston, Ibram Lassaw, and Dorothy Norman—and catalyzed public interest in Buddhism.

Spreading Indra's Net presents Suzuki's 1952-1953 lectures in full, giving a vivid look at how one of the most important global Buddhist figures of the twentieth century interpreted Zen for an American audience. Drawing on archival research in Japan and the United States, editor Richard M. Jaffe provides an extensive introduction that traces Suzuki's path to Columbia, analyzes the content of the lectures, and surveys their reception. Among the most accessible works of a major figure and a record of a crucial moment in New York history, this book displays Suzuki's gifts as a teacher, scholar, writer, and thinker.

Contents

Abbreviations
Editorial Notes
Introduction: A Course with No Beginning
Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki's Columbia University Seminar Lectures, 1952-1953
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Character Glossary
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index