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From 1897 to 1908 he worked in the united states as an editor and translator, and later became a lecturer at tokyo imperial university. William montgomery mcgoverns introduction to mahayana buddhism was one of the first books on mahayana buddhism written for a western audience. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. What you do is good, but something more is added to it. Suzuki was the author of more than a hundred works on the subject in both japanese and english, and was most instrumental in bringing the. The collected works of chinul, the author gives an introduction to chinuls life and. Zen buddhism is one of several subschools of mahayana buddhism, which is itself the larger of the two major interpretations of buddhist. Over the last twentyfive years western interest in mahayana has increased.
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