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During the past few decades, Zen (Ch’an) Buddhism has been the most popular Buddhist school among Westerners. Much has been stated on Zen metaphysics, epistemology, psychology, and philosophy of language. But little has been said about the Zen theory of morality. The chief purpose of this paper is to investigate the Zen view of morals.
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D. T. Suzuki, “Ethics and Zen Buddhism,” Moral Principles of Action, ed. by Ruth Nanda Anshen (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1952), pp. 606–607.
D. T. Suzuki, Zen and Japanese Culture (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1970), p. 27.
Heinrich Dumoulin, A History of Zen Buddhism, pp. 24–26.
The Dhammapada, V, 183;
see K. N. Jayatileke, The Message of the Buddha, ed. by Ninian Smart (New York: Free Press, 1974), p. 241.
See Winston L. King, In the Hope of Nibbána: An Essay on Theraváda Buddhist Ethics (LaSalle, Illinois: Open Court, 1964), p. 140.
See S. Tachibana, The Ethics of Buddhism (London: Curzon Press, 1981), pp. 58–59
H. Saddhatissa, Buddhist Ethics: Essence of Buddhism (New York: George Braziller, 1970), p. 87.
S. Tachibana, op. cit., p. 63.
Winston L. King, pp. 141–142.
See also Tachibana, pp. 67–68
Saddhatissa, pp. 110–112.
P. L. Narasu, The Essence of Buddhism, p. 73.
Confucius, Analects, 12:2.
Ibid., 6:28.
S. Tachibana, op. cit., p. 67.
D. T. Suzuki, Zen Buddhism, pp. 89–90.
Wm. Theodore de Bary, ed., Buddhist Tradition in India, China and Japan (New York: Modern Library, 1969), pp. 218–219.
See Beatrice Lane Suzuki, Maháyána Buddhism (London: David Marlowe, 1948), p. 117.
David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, ed. by L. A. Selby-Bigge (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967), pp. 469–470.
Alfred Jules Ayer, Language, Truth and Logic (New York: Dover, 1946), pp. 102–103 and 107–108.
See Wm. Theodore de Bary, op. cit., p. 227.
See Fung Yu-lan, A History of Chinese Philosophy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1953), Vol. II, p. 393.
Ibid., p. 396.
Ibid.
Ibid., pp. 404–405.
W. F. Jayasuriya, “Introduction to Abhidharma,” Light of the Buddha, III, No. 4 (April, 1958), 19;
Winston L. King, op. cit., p. 83.
U. Ba Thaw, “Exposition of Knowledge in the Eightfold Noble Path,” Part IV, Light of the Buddha, V. No. 1 (January, 1960), 2;
see also Winston L. King op. cit.
Mahathera Nyanatiloka, Buddhist Dictionary (Colombo: Frewin & Co., 1956), Udana, VIII, 3, p. 99;
see Winston L. King, op. cit., p. 85.
Winston L. King, op. cit., p. 29.
S. Tachibana, op. cit., p. 55.
W. F. Jayasuriya, “Introduction to Abhidharma,” Light of the Buddha, II. No. 9 (September, 1957), 17.
Heinrich Dumoulin, op. cit., p. 37.
Chang Chung-yuan, Original Teachings of Ch’an Buddhism, p. 165.
Fung Yu-lang, op. cit., p. 394.
Heinrich Doumoulin, op. cit., p. 104.
Ibid.
Ibid., p. 103.
Ibid.;
see also John C. H. Wu, The Golden Age of Zen, pp. 109–115.
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Cheng, HL. (1987). Zen Morality within This World. In: Tymieniecka, AT. (eds) Morality within the Life - and Social World. Analecta Husserliana, vol 22. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3773-4_16
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