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Hisamatsu

·         "Talks on the Vimalakirti Sutra" (Part 2: Dharma), Hisamatsu Shin'ichi, tr. TAKAHASHI Nobumichi, The FAS Society Journal 1996, pp. 2-10 (Chosakushû Vol. 6, pp. 120-129).

·         "Talks on the Vimalakirti Sutra" (Part 3: Buddhaland), Hisamatsu Shin'ichi, The FAS Society Journal 1997, pp. 133-140 (Chosakushû Vol. 6, pp. 130-139).

·         Problems of Religious Method, tr. Jeff Shore, FAS Society Journal Autumn 1987, pp. 12-15, from Hisamatsu Shin'ichi Chosakushu, Vol. III, Risosha, Tokyo (1971), pp. 547-553. First published in Zengaku Kenkyu 42 (March 1951).

·         The Downfall of Modern Age and the Idea of Postmodernist World, Hisamatsu Shin'ichi: translated by TOKIWA Gishin from "Kindai no Botsuraku toPostmodernist Sekai no Kôsô" (Chosakushu, Vol. 9) and first presented at the 1996 seminar/retreat at the Tiltenberg in the Netherlands

·         On Mutually Sharing Direct Self-Investigation, Hisamatsu Shin'ichi: translated by TOKIWA Gishin from "Sogo Sankyu nitsuite" (Chosakushu, Vol. 3) and first presented at the 1996 seminar/retreat at the Tiltenberg in the Netherlands.

·         A Postmodernist's Talk by Dr. Shin'ichi Hisamatsu Questioned and Listened to by Dr. Ryoji Watanabe on March 26, 1976, translated by TOKIWA Gishin, from "Postmodernist Hôdan", included in Revised and supplemented edition of Chosakushu, Vol. 9.

·         "A Talk by Dr. Shin'ichi Hisamatsu With Prof. Seishi Ishii (October 31, 1976),", abridged translation by TOKIWA Gishin, from "Postmodernist Hôdan", included in Revised and supplemented edition of Chosakushu, Vol. 9.

·         "On Mutually Going Into the Matter of Self"(1968) (a record of his talk during the FAS Society's sesshin-retreat in December 1968) tr. Tokiwa Gishin, 2012 included in AN INTRODUCTION TO HISAMATSU SHIN'ICHI'S RELIGIOUS THOUGHT (see p.168ff.)]

·         Teaching-Faith-Practice-Awakening, a talk (teiko) by HISAMATSU Shin'ichi, translated by Jeff Shore in collaboration with NAGASAWA Fusako and TOKIWA Gishin (From FAS Society Journal Summer 1985)

Others

 

Book

AN INTRODUCTION TO HISAMATSU SHIN'ICHI'S RELIGIOUS THOUGHT

A. I. The Author's own Prefaces or Introductions to His Five Separate Books with Their Contents

A. II. Contents of the Collected Writings

A. III. Additional Contents of the Enlarged Collected Writings in Nine Volumes

A. IV. Contents of the Four-Volume Lectures on Buddhism

B. Ten works and A Chronological Record

1. Chan and Chan Culture

2. On Chan Art

3. The Characteristics of Oriental Nothingness

4. Chan: Its Meaning for Modern Civilzation

5. Ultimate Crisis and Resurrection

6. True Sitting and the Fundamental Koan

7. On Mutually Going Into the Matter of Self

8. Memoirs of His Academic Life

9. After the Academic Life

10. Selected Verses

11. A Brief Chronological Record

 


Critical Sermons of the Zen Tradition; Hisamatsu's Talks on Linji, 
edited and translated by Christopher Ivesand Tokiwa Gishin , published in the autumn of 2002, by the Palgrave Macmillan, UK.We would like to recommend reading the book if anyone have not known about it. It took more than twenty years for Mr. Ives, a professor of religious studies in the United States, who had practiced with us for some years in Kyoto, and a professor Tokiwa to have it published. 

Mr.Kitahara's Foreword of the book will inspire people concerning practice; Prof. Abe's preface, though brief, will let people known what you are going to read; proof.Yanagida's Introduction will inspire people on the approach to the main theme, reading of the record of Master Linji through Dr. Hisamatsu's lectures given for our society members.