Almost 100 years after it was first published, "Sermons of a Buddhist Abbot" remains one of the best introductions to Buddhist thought for a Western audience. Newly edited and including an illuminating new Foreword by one of today's foremost scholars of Buddhism and Japanese religion, this edition contains the lectures and articles of the Japanese Zen abbot Soyen Shaku, whose talks in the United States first popularized Buddhism.
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Almost 100 years after it was first published, "Sermons of a Buddhist Abbot" remains one of the best introductions to Buddhist thought for a Western audience. Newly edited and including an illuminating new Foreword by one of today's foremost scholars of Buddhism and Japanese religion, this edition contains the lectures and articles of the Japanese Zen abbot Soyen Shaku, whose talks in the United States first popularized Buddhism.
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