Richard Jaffe

Book · June 24, 2025 Spreading Indra's Net presents D. T. Suzuki's 1952-1953 lectures at Columbia University in full, giving a vivid look at how one of the most important global Buddhist figures of the twentieth century interpreted Zen for an American audience. ... Cite

Seeking Sakyamuni South Asia in the Formation of Modern Japanese Buddhism

Book · May 22, 2019 In the richly illustrated Seeking Śākyamuni, Richard M. Jaffe reveals the experiences of the first Japanese Buddhists who traveled to South Asia in search of Buddhist knowledge beginning in 1873. ... Cite

PURE LAND, REAL WORLD: Modern Buddhism, Japanese Leftists, and the Utopian Imagination

Journal Article PACIFIC AFFAIRS · March 1, 2019 Link to item Cite

ZEN AND JAPANESE CULTURE

Book · January 1, 2019 Zen and Japanese Culture is a classic that has influenced generations of readers and played a major role in shaping conceptions of Zen’s influence on Japanese traditional arts. In simple and poetic language, Daisetz Suzuki describes Zen and its historical ... Cite

D. T. Suzuki and the Two Cranes: American Philanthropy and Suzuki’s Global Agenda

Journal Article Matsugaoka Bunko kenkyū nenpō · 2018 Cite

Selected Works of D. T. Suzuki, Volume III: Comparative Religion

Book · January 1, 2016 Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki was a key figure in the introduction of Buddhism to the non-Asian world. Many outside Japan encountered Buddhism for the first time through his writings and teaching, and for nearly a century his work and legacy have contributed to ... Cite

Neither Monk nor Layman: Conclusions

Chapter · February 2014 Cite

Selected Works of D. T. Suzuki, Zen Works

Book · 2014 Cite

Ima Daisetsu o yomu: Zen and Japanese Culture 2010 ban jobun

Journal Article Shiso (Thought) · 2014 Cite

Religion and Japanese Empire

Journal Article Japanese Journal of Religious Studies · 2010 Cite

Pure Land Buddhism in Modern Japanese Culture by Elisabetta Porcu

Journal Article Journal of Japanese Studies · 2010 Cite

Introduction: Zen and Japanese Culture

Chapter · 2010 Cite

Buddhist Material Culture, ’Indianism,’ and the Construction of Pan-Asianism in Prewar Japan

Journal Article Tohoku shukyogaku · December 2009 Cite

Seeking Sakyamuni: Travel and the Reconstruction of Japanese Buddhism

Chapter · January 2008 Cite

Review of Temple Buddhism by Steven Covell

Journal Article H-Buddhism · July 2007 Cite

Buddhist Material Culture, “Indianism,” and the Construction of Pan-Asian Buddhism in Pre-War Japan

Journal Article Material Religion · November 2006 Late-nineteenth and early twentieth century Japanese Buddhism was marked by a wide-ranging fascination with Buddhist origins in India. This Indian turn in Japanese Buddhist circles manifested not only in elite academic scholarship, but also in Buddhist art ... Cite

Review of Buddhist Missionaries in the Era of Globalization, edited by Linda Learman

Journal Article Journal of Contemporary Religion · May 2006 Cite

Buddhist material culture, "indianism," and the construction of pan-Asian Buddhism in prewar Japan

Journal Article Material Religion · January 1, 2006 Late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Japanese Buddhism was marked by a wide-ranging fascination with Buddhist origins in India. This Indian turn in Japanese Buddhist circles manifested not only in elite academic scholarship, but also in Buddhist ar ... Full text Cite

Meat Eating in Japanese Buddhism

Chapter · 2005 Cite

Seeking Shakyamuni: Travel and the Reconstruction of Japanese Buddhism

Journal Article Journal of Japanese Studies · 2004 The reconstruction of Japanese Buddhism in Meiji, Taisho, and Showa Japan involved not only interchanges with Europe and the United States. A central but overlooked catalyst for change was increased travel to and exchange with other Buddhists in Asia. An e ... Cite