Ueda Shizuteru

About The Author

Ueda Shizuteru, Professor Emeritus at Kyoto University, specializes in the philosophy of religion. His areas of interest include Christian mysticism, Buddhist thought, and Kyoto School philosophy. He is a longtime practitioner of Zen meditation.

Books by Ueda Shizuteru

Entangling Vines

A Classic Collection of Zen Koans

Foreword by Nelson Foster / Introduction by Ueda Shizuteru / Translated by Thomas Yuho Kirchner
Entangling Vines is a translation of the Shumon Kattoshu, the only major koan text to have been compiled in Japan rather than China. Most of the central koans of the contemporary Rinzai koan curriculum are contained in this work. Indeed, Kajitani Sonin (1914–1995)—former chief abbot of Shokoku-ji...
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