Ueda Shizuteru

About The Author

Ueda Shizuteru, Professor Emeritus at Kyoto University, specializes in the philosophy of religion. His areas of interest include Christian mysticism, Buddhist thought, and Kyoto School philosophy. He is a longtime practitioner of Zen meditation.

Books by Ueda Shizuteru

Entangling Vines

A Classic Collection of Zen Koans

Foreword by Nelson Foster / Introduction by Ueda Shizuteru / Translated by Thomas Yuho Kirchner
Entangling Vines, a translation of the Shumon kattoshu, is one of the few major koan texts to have been compiled in Japan rather than China. Indeed, Kajitani Sonin (1914 - 95), former chief abbot of Shokoku-ji and author of an annotated, modern-Japanese translation of the Kattoshu, commented that...
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