Editor’s note
All references to the Author’s Essays in Zen Buddhism,Series One and Two, and to his Introduction to ZenBuddhism, are to the second edition of these works, published in “The Complete Works of D. T. Suzuki.”
PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION
In my Introduction to ZenBuddhism(published 1934), an outline of Zen teaching is sketched, and in The Training of the Zm Monk(1934) a description of the Meditation Hall and its life is given. To complete a triptych the present Manual has been compiled. The object is to inform the reader of the various literary materials relating to the monastery life. Foreign students often express their desire to know about what the Zen monk reads before the Buddha in his daily service, where his thoughts move in his leisure hours, and what objects of worship he has in the different quarters of his institution. This work will partly, it is hoped, satisfy their desire. Those who find my Essaystoo bulky or too elaborate may prefer these smaller works on Zen.
Kyoto
Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
August 1935
Contents
Editor’s note
Author’s Preface
I. Gathas and Prayers
1. On Opening the Sutra
2. Confession
3. The Threefold Refuge
4. The Four Great Vows
5.The Worshipping of the Sarira
6. The Teaching of the Seven Buddhas
7.The Gatha of Impermanence
8. The Yemmei Kwannon Ten-Clause Sutra
9. Prayer on the Occasion of Feeding theHungry Ghosts
10. General Prayer
11.Prayer of the Bell
II. The Dharanis
1. Dharani of Removing Disasters
2. Dharani of the Great Compassionate One
3. Dharani of the Victorious Buddha-Crown
III. The Sutras
1.The Prajnaparamita-hridaya-sutra, or Shingyo (complete)
3. The Kwannongyo, or “Samantamukha Pari- varta” (complete)
5. The Kohgokyo, or Vajracchedika (the first half and extracts from the second half)
6. The Ryogonkyo, or Surangama Sutra (résumé)
IV. From the Chinese Zen Masters
1. Bodhidharma on the Twofold Entrance to the Tao
2. The Third Patriarch on “Believing in Mind”
3. From Hui-neng’s Tan-ching
4. Yoka Daishi’s “Song of Enlightenment”
5. Baso (Ma-tsu) and Sekito (Shih-tou)
6. Obaku’s (Huang-po) Sermon from “Treatise on the Essentials of the Transmission of Mind”
7. Gensha on the Three Invalids (from the Hekiganshuor Pi-yen Chi)
8. The Ten Oxherding Pictures I
The Ten Oxherding Pictures II
V. From the Japanese Zen Masters
1. Daio Kokushi on Zen
2. Daio Kokushi’s Admonition
3. Daito Kokushi’s Admonition and Last Poem
4. Kwanzan Kokushi’s Admonition
5. Muso Kokushi’s Admonition
6. Hakuin’s “Song of Meditation”
VI. The Buddhist Statues and Pictures in a Zen Monastery
Buddhas; Bodhisattvas; Arhats; Protecting Gods; Historical Figures
Index
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