Eshin Nishimura
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| Eshin Nishimura | |
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| Place of birth: | Japan |
| Nationality: | Japanese |
| Religion: | Rinzai |
| Title(s): | Priest |
| Workplace: | Hanazono University |
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Eshin Nishimura（西村 惠信, 1933-） is a Japanese Rinzai Zen Buddhist priest, the former president of Hanazono University in Kyoto, Japan, and also a major modern scholar in the Kyoto School of thought.[1] A current professor of the Department of Buddhism at Hanazono University, he has lectured at universities throughout the world on the subject of Zen Buddhism.[2] The author of many books, most written in the Japanese language, Nishimura has been a participant in many dialogues on the relationship of Zen to Christianity and Western philosophy.[1]
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[edit] Biography
Eshin Nishimura was born the youngest child of six siblings to a family of Rinzai practitioners. According to his own account, "Blessed with a profound karmic relationship with the Buddha, I entered the priesthood at age two and left my parents to live in a Zen temple as a priestling."[3] Nishimura graduated from Hanazono University from their Department of Buddhist Studies in 1956.[3] In 1969 he came to Oberlin College to give talks on Zen, and in 1970 and 1971 he taught a course for ten weeks on Zen at Carleton College.[2]
[edit] Bibliography
- Eshin Nishimura (2006). Kyōun ikkyū: kamenshi no sugao. Tokyo: Shikisha. ISBN 4884053567.
- Eshin Nishimura (2006). Rinzairoku o meguru danshō: jiko kakuritsu no hōho. Kyoto: Zenbunkakenkyūjo. ISBN 4881822144.
- Eshin Nishimura (2006). Hotoke no kotoba ichinichi ichiwa : ikiru chikara ga waite kuru. Tokyo: Pīeichipīkenkyūjo. ISBN 4569649203.
- Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki; Kitarō Nishida; Eshin Nishimura (2004). Nishida Kitarō ate Suzuki Daisetsu shokan: okkū ai wakarete shuyu mo hanarezu. Iwanami Shoten. ISBN 4000242296.
- Eshin Nishimura (2001). Kirisutosha to aruita Zen no michi. Hōzōkan. ISBN 4831881430.
- Eshin Nishimura (1998). Zen to Gendai. Tōkyō: Perikansha. ISBN 483150808X.
- Eshin Nishimura (1988). Watakushi no Jūgyūzu. Hōzōkan, Shōwa 63. ISBN 4831880361.
- Eshin Nishimura (1987). Zenrin shugyōron. Hōzōkan, Shōwa 62. ISBN 483187325X.
- Eshin Nishimura (1986). Rinzaishū. Tokyo: Shōgakkan. ISBN 4095810068.
- Eshin Nishimura (1983). Zensō no seikatsu. Tokyo: Yūzankaku Shuppan, Shōwa 58. ISBN 4639002718.
- Eshin Nishimura; Daikan (1982). Tōrei Oshō nenpu. Kyōto: Shibunkaku Shuppan, Shōwa 57. OCLC 17101775.
- Yasuaki Nara; Eshin Nishimura (1979). Zenshū. Tōkyō: Yūzankaku Shuppan, Shōwa 54. OCLC 10782743.
- Eshin Nishimura; Giei Sato; Smith, Bardwell L. (1973). Unsui: A Diary of Zen Monastic Life. University Press of Hawaii. ISBN 0824802772.
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[edit] References
- Eshin Nishimura; Giei Sato; Smith, Bardwell L. (1973). Unsui: A Diary of Zen Monastic Life. University Press of Hawaii. ISBN 0824802772.
- Nishimura, Eshin. Zen: the Way to Deliverance from Ignorance. Jodo Shu Research Institute. Retrieved on 2008-03-22.
- Nishimura, Eshin (Spring/Summer 2007). "Embracing Earth While Facing Death: A Buddhist monk reflects on the limits of contemporary science". Harvard Divinity Bulletin 35 (2&3). Harvard Divinity School.
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