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The Buddha Eye is an anthology of significant writings by the major figures of the Kyoto School, many of whom must be considered as among the most important 20th century exponents of Zen. Frederick Franck’s expressive “Prologue” and his prefaces to each essay allows this volume to serve as a basic introduction to this vibrant current of contemporary Buddhism.
The Buddha Eye also contains a foreword by Joan Stambaugh .
About the Author(s)
Frederick Franck
Frederick Franck was a man of many talents: surgeon, philosopher, author, translator, artist, and, above all, activist for peace and humanity and critic of modern barbarisms. Internationally acclaimed for his many accomplishments, Dr. Franck blended art and spirituality into all that he produced, helping people see the humanity in others and God's Spirit in its many manifestations in the world. His classic book The Buddha Eye was reissued by World Wisdom, with some new additions, in 2004. He was also the editor of The Messenger of the Heart, a beautiful book featuring poems of Angelus Silesius, complemened by Franck's own drawings and select sayings of Zen masters.
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Joan Stambaugh
Joan Stambaugh is Professor of Philosophy at the City University of New York. She is the author of several works dealing with Buddhist and Existentialist topics, including Impermanence is Buddha-Nature: Dogen’s Understanding of Temporality (1990), The Other Nietzsche (1994), and The Formless Self (1999). She also contributed a foreword to The Buddha Eye: An Anthology of the Kyoto School and its Contemporaries edited by Frederick Franck .
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Reviews
- Fredrick Franck has done us all a wonderful service in culling the pages of the Eastern Buddhist for these gem-like essays by the profoundest thinkers of the Kyoto school… This book is a very precious gift to us in that it allows us a sojourn in the Buddha eye… It is joyfully recommended to all.
Robert Thurman, Columbia University, and author of Essential Tibetan Buddhism
- With the appearance of The Buddha Eye…a new era in Buddhist thought has been launched.
Taitetsu Unno, Smith College, and author of Shin Buddhism: Bits of Rubble Turn into Gold
- The Buddha Eye, one of a new series of works on contemporary Japanese thought…is an important and interesting collection…
Philosophy East and West
- This anthology serves as an excellent introduction to the Suzuki version of Zen.
Journal of Asian Studies
- The juxtaposition of essays is provocative in eliciting a Western response. Some of the essays are already recognized as classics and some of the others should be…This book provides a service to Western students of religion who wish to broaden their understanding of cross-cultural religious and philosophical dialogue.
The Eastern Buddhist.
- This new edition of Frederick Franck’s The Buddha Eye is to be welcomed by students of Japanese and Buddhist thought. This anthology contains an excellent selection of writings on issues such as self and other, emptiness and God, suchness and reality in Zen and Shin Buddhism by leading members of the Kyoto School, especially Keiji Nishitani, and associated figures such as Daisetz Suzuki, who helped popularize Zen in the West. It also includes essays on the reception of the Kyoto school and its further development by “second-generation” thinkers such as Masao Abe. The essays discuss basic philosophical and religious issues from Buddhist and comparative perspectives. This text will serve as a fine and lucid introduction in courses on Zen Buddhism, Japanese thought, and comparative and cross-cultural philosophy and religion
Eric Sean Nelson, University of Toledo
- The nuances of thought and understanding become clear through the use of thoughtful prose and moving poetry; the ability of outstanding individual contributors to explain Zen in a manner that makes sense to Western ears is almost unparalleled in Buddhist literature today.…
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