Showing posts with label Yanagida Seizan, 柳田聖山,Yinyuan Longqi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Yanagida Seizan, 柳田聖山,Yinyuan Longqi. Show all posts

Saturday, December 12, 2020

Yanagida Seizan's 柳田聖山 chapter on Yinyuan


Yanagida Seizan 柳田聖山 (1922-2006)educated a generation of American scholars of East Asian Buddhism. He was often considered an eminent scholar of early Chinese Chan history. But rarely known is that he has written a passionate essay about Yinyuan Longqi 隱元隆琦 in a popular book on Zen and Japanese Culture.