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Heinrich Dumoulin, S.J. (31 May 1905 – 21 July 1995) was a
Biography and career
Dumoulin was born in the village of Wevelinghoven, Rhineland, Germany, the son of a notary public. He studied philosophy in Holland and France, receiving his doctoral degree in 1929, and was ordained as a Jesuit priest in 1933.[2] In 1935, he was sent to Japan on missions under the guidance of Fr. Hugo Enomiya-Lassalle, where he became fluent in the Shinto religion and Buddhism.[3]
Dumoulin was a scholar of Zen Buddhism and wrote several books on its history, first urged to do it by the American Buddhist Ruth Fuller Sasaki. His Zen Buddhism: A history was published in 1988, translated from the original German by James Heisig and Paul Knitter.[4]
He died in 1995 at the age of 90, after being hospitalized for three weeks, and was buried at the St. Ignatius Church, Tokyo.[5]
Legacy
According to John Jorgensen Dumoulin was "the foremost exponent of the history of Zen Buddhism to the West".[6] The 1985 double number of the Japanese Journal of Religious Studies was dedicated to him and his work.
Bibliography
- The Development of Chinese Zen After the Sixth Patriarch in the Light of the Mumonkan (1953, First Zen Institute of America)
- A History of Zen Buddhism (1963, Pantheon Books)
- Christianity Meets Buddhism (1974, Open Court Publishing)
- Buddhism in the Modern World (1976, Macmillan Publishing)
- Zen Enlightenment: Origins and Meaning (1979, Weatherhill)
- Zen Buddhism in the Twentieth Century (1992)
- Understanding Buddhism: Key Themes (1994), Weatherhill
- Zen Buddhism: A History; Volume 1 India and China, (2005, World Wisdom)
- Zen Buddhism: A History; Volume 2 Japan, (2005, World Wisdom)
References
- ^ "Heinrich Dumoulin: Life and Work". www.worldwisdom.com. Retrieved 7 April 2023.
- ISSN 0304-1042.
- ISBN 0-941532-57-7.
- ISBN 0-02-908230-7.
- ^ Van Bragt, Jan (1995). "In memoriam: Heinrich Dumoulin (1905–1995)". Japanese Journal of Religious Studies. 22 (3–4): 459–461.
- ISSN 0304-1042.