Eshin Nishimura
西村 惠信
Title	Rōshi
Personal
Born	Shiga Prefecture   Japan
Religion	Rinzai, Zen Buddhism
Nationality	Japanese
Senior posting
Based in	Hanazono University

Eshin Nishimura (西村 惠信; born 1933) is a Japanese Rinzai Zen Buddhist priest, the former president of Hanazono University in Kyoto, Japan, and also a major modern scholar in the Kyoto School of thought. ^[1] A current professor of the Department of Buddhism at Hanazono University, he has lectured at universities throughout the world on the subject of Zen Buddhism. ^[2] The author of many books, most written in the Japanese language, Nishimura has been a participant in many dialogues on the relationship of Zen to Christianity and Western philosophy. ^[3]

Biography

Eshin Nishimura was born the youngest child of six siblings to a family of Rinzai practitioners. According to his own account, "Blessed with a profound karmic relationship with the Buddha, I entered the priesthood at age two and left my parents to live in a Zen temple as a priestling." ^[4] Nishimura graduated from Hanazono University from their Department of Buddhist Studies in 1956. ^[4] In 1969 he came to Oberlin College to give talks on Zen, and in 1970 and 1971 he taught a course for ten weeks on Zen at Carleton College ^[2] and another course at Carleton on Keiji Nishitani's Religion and Nothingness in 1989.

Bibliography

• Eshin Nishimura (2006). Kyōun ikkyū: kamenshi no sugao. Tokyo: Shikisha. ISBN  4-88405-356-7. OCLC  170197952.
• Eshin Nishimura (2006). Rinzairoku o meguru danshō: jiko kakuritsu no hōho. Kyoto: Zenbunkakenkyūjo. ISBN  4-88182-214-4. OCLC  77555659.
• Eshin Nishimura (2006). Hotoke no kotoba ichinichi ichiwa : ikiru chikara ga waite kuru. Tokyo: Pīeichipīkenkyūjo. ISBN  4-569-64920-3. OCLC  170217292.
• Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki; Kitarō Nishida; Eshin Nishimura (2004). Nishida Kitarō ate Suzuki Daisetsu shokan: okkū ai wakarete shuyu mo hanarezu. Iwanami Shoten. ISBN  4-00-024229-6. OCLC  57890677.
• Eshin Nishimura (2001). Kirisutosha to aruita Zen no michi. Hōzōkan. ISBN  4-8318-8143-0. OCLC  51643951.
• Eshin Nishimura (1998). Zen to Gendai. Tōkyō: Perikansha. ISBN  4-8315-0808-X. OCLC  39787277.
• Eshin Nishimura (1988). Watakushi no Jūgyūzu. Hōzōkan, Shōwa 63. ISBN  4-8318-8036-1. OCLC  32978613.
• Eshin Nishimura (1987). Zenrin shugyōron. Hōzōkan, Shōwa 62. ISBN  4-8318-7325-X. OCLC  19398516.
• Eshin Nishimura (1986). Rinzaishū. Tokyo: Shōgakkan. ISBN  4-09-581006-8. OCLC  15487025.
• Eshin Nishimura (1983). Zensō no seikatsu. Tokyo: Yūzankaku Shuppan, Shōwa 58. ISBN  4-639-00271-8. OCLC  16138955.
• Eshin Nishimura; Daikan (1982). Tōrei Oshō nenpu. Kyōto: Shibunkaku Shuppan, Shōwa 57. OCLC  17101775.
• Yasuaki Nara; Eshin Nishimura (1979). Zenshū. Tōkyō: Yūzankaku Shuppan, Shōwa 54. OCLC  10782743.
• Eshin Nishimura; Giei Sato; Smith, Bardwell L. (1973). Unsui: A Diary of Zen Monastic Life. University Press of Hawaii. ISBN  0-8248-0277-2.

Notes

References

• Eshin Nishimura; Giei Sato; Smith, Bardwell L. (1973). Unsui: A Diary of Zen Monastic Life. University Press of Hawaii. ISBN  0-8248-0277-2.
• Nishimura, Eshin. "Zen: the Way to Deliverance from Ignorance". Jodo Shu Research Institute. Retrieved 2008-03-22.
• Nishimura, Eshin (Summer 2007). "Embracing Earth While Facing Death: A Buddhist monk reflects on the limits of contemporary science". Harvard Divinity Bulletin. 35 (2&3). Harvard Divinity School. Retrieved 2021-06-11.

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