Manual of Zen Buddhism

by

DAISETZ TEITARO SUZUKI, D.LITT.

1935

EDITOR'S FOREWORD TO SECOND EDITION

EDITOR'S NOTE TO SECOND EDITION

PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION

I. GATHAS AND PRAYERS

• I. ON OPENING THE SUTRA
• II. CONFESSION
• III. THE THREEFOLD REFUGE
• IV. THE FOUR GREAT VOWS
• V. THE WORSHIPPING OF THE SARIRA
• VI. THE TEACHING OF THE SEVEN BUDDHAS
• VII. THE GATHA OF IMPERMANENCE
• VIII. THE YEMMEI KWANNON TEN-CLAUSE SUTRA
• IX. PRAYER ON THE OCCASION OF FEEDING THE HUNGRY GHOSTS
• X. GENERAL PRAYER[1]
• XI. PRAYER OF THE BELL

II. THE DHARANIS

• I. DHARANI OF REMOVING DISASTERS
• II. DHARANI OF THE GREAT COMPASSIONATE ONE
• III. DHARANI OF THE VICTORIOUS BUDDHA-CROWN

III. THE SUTRAS

• I. ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE SHINGYO
• II. THE KWANNON SUTRA
• III. THE KONGOKYO OR DIAMOND SUTRA
• IV. THE LANKAVATARA SUTRA
• V. THE RYOGONKYO, OR SURANGAMA SUTRA

IV. FROM THE CHINESE ZEN MASTERS

• I. BODHIDHARMA ON THE TWOFOLD ENTRANCE TO THE TAO
• II. ON BELIEVING IN MIND (SHINJIN-NO-MEI)
• III. FROM HUI-NENG'S TAN-CHING
• IV. YOKA DAISHI'S "SONG OF ENLIGHTENMENT"
• V. BASO (MA-TSU) AND SEKITO (SHIH-T'OU), TWO GREAT MASTERS OF THE T'ANG DYNASTY
• VI. HUANG-PO'S SERMON, FROM "TREATISE ON THE ESSENTIALS OF THE TRANSMISSION OF MIND" (DENSHIN HOYO)
• VII. GENSHA ON THE: THREE INVALIDS
• VIII. THE TEN OXHERDING PICTURES.

V. FROM THE JAPANESE ZEN MASTERS

• I. DAI-O KOKUSHI "ON ZEN"
• II. DAI-O KOKUSHI'S ADMONITION[1]
• III. DAITO KOKUSHI'S ADMONITION
• IV. KWANZAN KOKUSHI'S ADMONITION
• V. MUSO KOKUSHI'S ADMONITION
• VI. HAKUIN'S "SONG OF MEDITATION"

VI. THE BUDDHIST STATUES AND PICTURES IN A ZEN MONASTERY

• II. THE BODHISATTVAS
• III. THE ARHATS
• IV. THE PROTECTING GODS
• V. SOME OF THE HISTORICAL FIGURES