Zen War Stories
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| Author(s) : Victoria, Brian Daizen |
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| ISBN : 0700715819 | | EAN : 9780700715817 | | Cover : Paperback | | Pages : 268 | | Size : 234 x 156mm | | Publisher : Curzon | | Published : 2003 |
Category : Japan: Land and Culture
Category 2 : Zen: General
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Synopsis:
Following the critically acclaimed Zen at War, the author here explores the intimate and controversial relationship between Japanese institutional Buddhism and militarism during the Second World War.
In this highly controversial study, Victoria reveals for the first time, through examination of the wartime writings of the Japanese military itself, that the Zen school's view of life and death was deliberately incorporated into the military's programme of spiritual education in order to develop a fanatical military spirit in both soldiers and civilians. Furthermore, it is shown that D.T.Suzuki, the most famous exponent of Zen in the West, was a wartime proponent of this Zen-inspired viewpoint which enabled Japanese soldiers to leave the battlefield already resigned to death. Victoria takes us on to the naval battlefield in the company of warrior-monk and Rinzai Zen master Nakajima Genjo. We view the war in China through the eyes of a Buddhist military chaplain. The book also examines the realtionship to Buddhism of Japan's seven class A war criminals, hung by the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal in 1948. |
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