Ch’an (Zen) Buddhism in China: Its History and Method
Ch’an (Zen) Buddhism in China: Its History and Method
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中国禅宗：它的历史和方法
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10.1007/978-3-642-31181-9_22
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2013
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四分之一个多世纪以来，我的博学的朋友，原日本京都大谷大学的铃木泰太郎博士，一直在向西方世界解释和介绍禅宗。通过他孜孜不倦的努力和他写的许多关于禅宗的书，他成功地赢得了听众和许多追随者，尤其是在英国。作为铃木的朋友和研究中国思想的历史学家，我对铃木的著作有着浓厚的兴趣。但我从不向他隐瞒我对他的处理方法的失望。我最大的失望是，根据铃木和他的弟子，禅是不合逻辑的，非理性的，因此，超出了我们的智力理解。铃木喜在他的书《禅宗生活》中告诉我们：这种否认人类智慧有能力理解和评价禅宗的观点是我坚决拒绝接受的。难道所谓的禅或禅真的是如此不合逻辑和不合理，以至于“完全超出了人类的理解范围”，以至于我们理性或理性的思维方式在“评价禅宗的真假”方面毫无用处吗？
For more than a quarter of a century, my learned friend, Dr. Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, formerly of the Otani University, Kyoto, Japan, has been interpreting and introducing Zen Buddhism to the Western world. Through his untiring effort and through his many books on Zen, he has succeeded in winning an audience and a number of followers, notably in England. As a friend and as a historian of Chinese thought, I have followed Suzuki’s work with keen interest. But I have never concealed from him my disappointment in his method of approach. My greatest disappointment has been that, according to Suzuki and his disciples, Zen is illogical, irrational, and, therefore, beyond our intellectual understanding. In his bookLiving by Zen Suzukitells us:It is this denial of the capability of the human intelligence to understand and evaluate Zen that I emphatically refuse to accept. Is the so-called Ch’an or Zen really so illogical and irrational that it is “altogether beyond the ken of human understanding” and that our rational or rationalistic way of thinking is of no use “in evaluating the truth and untruth of Zen”?