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I am a Japanese Buddhist priest who belongs to the orthodox Rinzai school of Zen Buddhism, a school that has its roots in Chinese ch’an Buddhism. Therefore, my way of approaching Kierkegaard is essentially different from that of other Japanese Kierkegaard scholars, most of who seem to be academic scholars outside the Buddhist sangha (or community).
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Aishin Imaeda (ed.), Wu-teng hui-yuan [The Arranged Issue o fthe Five Biographies of Chinese Zen Masters] ( Tokyo: Rinrökaku-shoten, 1971 ) p. 326.
Kenji Nishitani, Religion and Nothingness, trans. Yan Van Bragt (Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1982 ) p. 119.
Zenkei Shibayamna, Zen Comments on the Mumonkan, trans. Sumiko Kuck) (New York: Harper and Row, 1974 ) p. 19.
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Nishimura, E. (2008). A Zen Understanding of Kierkegaard’s Existential Thought. In: Giles, J. (eds) Kierkegaard and Japanese Thought. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230589827_4
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