The Mystical Hermeneutics of Eckhart and Dogen : The Continuous Self-Revelation of Buddha Nature
VU Research Portal 2011 A.F.M. van der Braak 2 citations
This article considers various comparisons that can be made between Meister Eckhart (1260-1328) and the Zen Buddhist tradition. It first summarizes how D.T. Suzuki (1870-1966) used the comparison between Eckhart and Zen to explain Zen to the West, and how Kyoto School member Ueda Shizuteru (1926-) interprets Eckhart's notion of the birth of God in the soul as an initial stage in a process that...