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Zen and Japanese Culture (Princeton Classics)
Verdict: the rich final deep dive, showing Eastern thought embodied in culture rather than left at the level of doctrine.
- Author
- Daisetz T. Suzuki
- Introduction
- Richard M. Jaffe
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press, Princeton Classics (2019)
- Print ASIN
- 0691182965
- Length
- About 608 pages
- Kindle
- Available (B07CSJ9Q3B)
- Level
- Moderate–advanced; deep dive
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Suzuki studies Zen's shaping of Japanese aesthetics and life through swordsmanship, haiku, the tea ceremony, love of nature, and the samurai ethos. It is longer and richer than his Introduction.
This edition
The 2019 Princeton Classics edition is the current illustrated, in-print version and includes a scholarly introduction by Richard M. Jaffe.
Place in the reading order
Read it after basic orientation. It rewards curious general readers and arts lovers who want to see thought expressed through forms of life.
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