Swedenborg

by Suzuki, Daisetz Teitaro; Bernstein, Andrew; Nagashima, Tatsuya

• ISBN13: 9780877851844
• ISBN10: 0877851840
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-06-01
• Publisher: Swedenborg Foundation

Summary

Revolutionary in theology, traveller of heaven and hell, champion of the spiritual world, king of the mystical realm, clairvoyant unique in history, scholar of incomparable vigour, scientist of penetrating intellect, gentleman free of worldly taint: all of these combined into one make Swedenborg.

Author Biography

Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki (1870-1966) is credited with introducing the West to Zen Buddhism. Suzuki pursued his religious and philosophical studies at Tokyo University. After a ten-year sojourn in the United States, where he worked as an editor of Oriental Studies for Open Court Press, Suzuki returned to his native Japan where he undertook the translation of Swedenborg's works into Japanese. Throughout his long life, this Buddhist scholar taught at colleges in Japan, the United States, and Europe, including Columbia, Yale, Harvard, Cambridge, and Oxford. His works are collected in the 32-volume Suzuki Daisetsu Zenshu. Among his works available in English are Essays in Zen Buddhism, Mysticism: Christian and Buddhist, and Zen and Japanese Culture.