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Dr. HISAMATSU Shin'ichi's Zen-based philosophy and religion of Awakening and activities.

Update: November 24, 2024

        FAS Society

FAS weekly meetings are held every month on the first Saturday in Rinko-in on the grounds of Shokoku-ji Temple. Click Activities above for detail.

 

 

 

 

Notice

November 22, 2024

No FAS meeting on the first Saturday of December.

FAS meeting in January next year is on the 11th.

Winter retreat is from 21 to 22, December, at Rinko-in of Shokokuji Temple 

December 21 (Sat)

Zazen: 13:30 to 14:00

Presentation: 14:00 to 16:00

December 22 (Sun)

  Zazen: 9:00 to 12:00 and 13:30 to 14:00

       Presentation: 13:30 to 14:00


Free to participate.

If you wish to stay overnight, please prepare a sleeping bag or the like.

 

March 26, 2016

We have changed the method to receive your mail through “ContactUs” to enable use by visitors with diverse environments and settings.

 

New Article

February 13, 2013

The Starting Point of My Philosophy                                                                     

NISHITANI Keiji

From FAS Society Journal in 1986

January 6, 2013

The Subtle Workings of the Issuing of the Vow

ABE Masao

From FAS Society Journal

December 1, 2012

Interview with Nishitani Kenji

 

Yoshiaki Ejiri and Jeff Shore

From FAS Society Journal 1985

October 9, 2012

We have uploaded a revised version of

AN INTRODUCTION TO HISAMATSU SHIN'ICHI'S RELIGIOUS THOUGHT

TOKIWA Gishin

Content

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 Civilization

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

October 31, 2011

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)