D. T. Suzuki and the question of war.(Critical essay)

Middle Way | August 1, 2009| | Copyright

PART ONE

Few books in recent years have so deeply influenced the thinking of Buddhists in Japan and elsewhere as Brian Daizen Victoria's Zen at War. (1) The book's great contribution is that it has succeeded, where others have not, in bringing to public attention the largely unquestioning support of Japanese Buddhists for their nation's militarism in the years from the Meiji Restoration in 1868 (when Japan opened up to the world after nearly 250 years of feudal isolation) to the end of the Second World War.

As a Japanese Buddhist myself, I personally feel a ...

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