Zen Buddhism, and Its Relation to ArtWaley, Arthur
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Zen Buddhism, and Its Relation to Art
Waley, Arthur
Buddhist art; Zen Buddhism
Second Patriarch of the sect. Severed his own arm and presented
it to Bodhidharma. In spite of his fanaticism (or because of it)
the Founder did not at first regard him with complete confidence
and recommended to him the study of the Langkāvatāra Sūtra,
not considering him ripe for complete, non-dogmatic Zen. Eka
waiting waist-deep in the snow for the Founder to instruct him.
Masterpieces of Sesshū, Pl. 45.
ENŌ.
Sixth Patriarch. See above, p 15. _Kokka_, 289, 297.
TOKUSAN, died 865 A.D.
_Shimbi Taikwan_, I, 13, shows him with his famous Zen stick. He
is also sometimes depicted failing to answer an old market-woman’s
riddle; and tearing up his commentary on the Diamond Sūtra.
TANKA.
A painting by Indra (_Kokka_ 173) shows him burning the wooden
statue of Buddha at the Erin Temple.
BIBLIOGRAPHY.
(1) EUROPEAN.
The only writer who has made extracts from the works of Bodhidharma is
Père Wieger, whose remarks (in his _Histoire des Croyances religieuses
en Chine_, pp. 517-528) show a robust and likeable bigotry.
Of Zen literature he says: “Nombre d’in-folio remplis de réponses
incohérentes, insensées.... Ce ne sont pas, comme on l’a supposé, des
allusions à des affaires intérieures, qu’il faudrait connaître pour
pouvoir comprendre. Ce sont des exclamations échappées à des abrutis,
momentanément tirés de leur coma.”
For the tea-ceremony in Japan see Okakura’s _Book of Tea_ (Foulis,
1919). The “military” Zen of Japan is well described by Nukariya Kaiten
in his _The Religion of the Samurai, 1913_.
(2) NATIVE.
Most of this paper is derived from the section on Zen (Series II, Vol.
15, seq.) in the “Supplement to the Collection of Buddhist Scriptures,”
_Dai Nihon Zoku Zō Kyō_.
Much of the information with regard to the Rokutsūji School is taken
from the article by Mr. Saga to which I have already referred. For the
Rokutsūji (“Temple of the Six Penetrations”) see _Hsien Shun Lin-an
Chih_ (“Topography of Hangchow, 1265-1275 A.D.”), ch. 78, f. 9
recto.
I have also used Yamada’s _Zenshū Jiten_ (Dictionary of Zen) and the
_Hekiganroku_, edited by Sōyen, 1920.
SHORT INDEX.
(Chinese pronunciations given in brackets.)
Amida, 8.
Baso (Ma Tsu), 20.
Bodhidharma (Ta-mo), 8 _seq._, 29.
Bodhisattvas, 8.
Buddhapriya (Chio-ai), 11.
_Dai Bonten Monbutsu-ketsugi Kyō_, 14.
Daigu (Ta-yü), 20.
Diamond Sūtra, 15.
Dhyāna, see Zen. Also, 10.
Eka (Hui-k’o), 29.
Enkwan (Yen-kuan), 14.
Enō (Hui-nēng), 15, 29.
Fujaku (P’u-chi), 17.
Haikyū (P’ei Hsiu), 18.
_Hokkekyō_, see _Saddharma_, etc.
Honkakuji (Pēn-chio-ssŭ), 28.
Joji (Ching-tz’u), 28.
Kern, 8.
Kōnin (Hung-jēn), 15.
Korin (Ku-lin), 28.
Mahāyāna, 7.
Mokkei (Mu-ch’i), 22, 27.
Mujun (Wu-chun), 27.
Nanso (Nan-ch’u), 28.
Ōbaku (Huang Po), 18.
Okakura, 30.
Rasō (Lo-ch’uang), 23, 27.
Rikaku (Li Ch’üeh), 27.
Rinzai (Lin-chi), 20.
Rokutsūji (Liu-t’ung-ssŭ), 22.
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