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Research on the Transformation of Zen in the West

Research Project

Project/Area Number 23652009
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Research Field Religious studies
Research InstitutionRikkyo University

Principal Investigator

SATO Migaku  立教大学, 文学部, 教授 (00187238)

Project Period (FY) 2011 – 2013
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2013)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,250,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥750,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
Keywords坐禅 / 公案 / 在家 / 臨済宗 / 曹洞宗 / 修行 / 禅キリスト教 / 禅 / 見性 / 悟り / メディテーション / 癒やし
Research Abstract

How Zen has changed in the West is not monolithic, but different from Zen school to Zen school. The Soto School, as it is in Japan, concentrates itself upon "just sitting," while installing a certain number of priests in the West. It can be described as creating a secondary stream after the main stream in Japan. Also, the Rinzai School has not fully developed its independent activities in the West, mainly because of the difficulties to translate its koan education system in Western languages. In this context, the Sanbo-Kyodan Line, a lay organization, is unique in its experiment of creating a universal Zen, including Christian practitioners, through full translation of its koan system as well as through focusing on the discovery of one's "true self" in Zen practice. How dramatically Zen could be transformed in the future in the West could be best observed, as it seems, when one closely follows the development of the Sanbo-Kyodan Line from now on.

Report

(4 results)
  • 2013 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2012 Research-status Report
  • 2011 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (4 results)

All 2015 2013 Other

All Book (3 results) Remarks (1 results)

  • [Book] 『禅キリスト教の展開』2015

    • Author(s)
      佐藤研
    • Publisher
      ぷねうま舎
    • Related Report
      2013 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] 久保田浩(編)『文化接触の創造力』2013

    • Author(s)
      佐藤研、久保田浩、丸山浩明、山下王世、小峯和明、平野隆文、林みどり、小池靖、市川誠、西原廉太
    • Total Pages
      272
    • Publisher
      リトン社
    • Related Report
      2013 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] 文化接触の創造力2013

    • Author(s)
      佐藤 研
    • Total Pages
      272
    • Publisher
      禅はヨーロッパでどう変わったか
    • Related Report
      2012 Research-status Report
  • [Remarks]

    • URL

      http://www2.rikkyo.ac.jp/web/msato/

    • Related Report
      2011 Research-status Report

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Published: 2011-08-05   Modified: 2019-07-29  

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