Gudō Wafu Nishijima

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Gudo Wafu Nishijima (Nishijima Gudō Wafu (西嶋愚道和夫), 29 November 1919 – 28 January 2014) was a Japanese Zen Buddhist priest and teacher.[1]

Biography

As a young man in the early 1940s, Nishijima became a student of the Zen teacher

Soto Zen sect. Four years later, Niwa gave him shiho, formally accepting him as one of his successors.[3]
Nishijima continued his professional career until 1979.

During the 1960s, Nishijima began giving regular public lectures on Buddhism and

Fundamental Verses of the Middle Way
(Mūlamadhyamakakārikā).

In 2007, Nishijima and a group of his students organized as the Dogen Sangha International. In April 2012, the president of the organization, Brad Warner, dissolved it subsequent to Nishijima's death.[4][5]

Three philosophies and one reality

While studying the Shōbōgenzō, Nishijima developed a theory he called "three philosophies and one reality,"

objective" (in mainstream Buddhism, samudaya). The third perspective is described as an integration of the first two, producing a "realistic" synthesis (mainstream, nirodha). The fourth perspective is reality itself, which Nishijima argues cannot be contained in philosophy or stated in words, but which Dōgen attempts to suggest through poetry and symbolism. In mainstream Buddhism, the fourth Noble Truth is the Noble Eightfold Path.[1]

Nishijima stated that "Buddhism is just Humanism"

autonomic nervous system.[8]

English-language books

References

  1. ^ "Obituary: Gudo Wafu Nishijima". Sweeping Zen. Archived from the original on February 2, 2014. Retrieved February 1, 2014.
  2. ^ a b "Introducing Master Gudo Wafu Nishijima". Dogen Sangha. Archived from the original on 2005-12-01. Retrieved 2005-12-03.
  3. ISBN 9781589612129
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  4. ^ "Dogen Sangha International is No More". Hardcorezen.blogspot.com.
  5. ^ "Dogen Sangha International Post Mortem". Hardcorezen.blogspot.com.
  6. ^ Nishijima Gudo Wafu (1987). "Three Philosophies and One Reality" (PDF). Windbell Publications, Tokyo. Retrieved 2008-04-29.
  7. ^ Buddhism and Humanism
  8. ^ The Relation Between the Autonomic Nervous System and Buddhism

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