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Selected Works of D. T. Suzuki, Volume IV Buddhist Studies
No full textDaisetsu Teitar?¯ Suzuki was a key figure in the introduction of Buddhism to the non-Asian world. Many outside Japan encountered Buddhism for the first time through his writings and teaching, and for nearly a century his work and legacy have contributed to the ongoing religious and cultural interchange between Japan and the rest of the world, particularly the United States and Europe. This fourth volume of Selected Works of D. T. Suzuki brings together a range of Suzuki's writings in the area of Buddhist studies. Based on his text-critical work in the Chinese canon, these essays reflect his commitment to clarifying Mahayana Buddhist doctrines in Indian, Chinese, and Japanese historical contexts. Many of these innovative writings reflect Buddhological discourse in contemporary Japan and the West's pre-war ignorance of Mahayana thought. Included is a translation into English for the first time of his "Mahayana Was Not Preached by Buddha." In addition to editing the essays and contributing the translation, Mark L. Blum presents an introduction that examines how Suzuki understood Mahayana discourse via Chinese sources and analyzes his problematic use of Sanskri
What's the Point?: Multipodal Orbits in the Suzuki Method of Actor Training
No full textThis dissertation accounts for different affective social formations of people who practice, witness, or study the Suzuki Method. The focus of this research is the performative feeling of what it is like to approach the Method from the angle of actor/student, or director/teacher, or their audiences. Across various writings around the Suzuki Method, including this auto-ethnography, what stands out is that the very embodiedness of the practice – its “animal energy” – is impossible to translate into words. However, by attempting this impossibility, by striving to caption and articulate the ineffable, certain lessons begin to take shape. Throughout the dissertation, the overall argument is that recognizing the cultural and affective relationships created by the Suzuki Method as “Multipodal Orbits” can articulate specific social qualities and codes of this Latourian “actor-network.” The historiographies, pedagogies, and performances of the Suzuki Method – its dramaturgies – are usefully encapsulated by this term or shape of a “Multipodal Orbit.” The phrase multipodal orbit (lit. “many-footed circle”) describes a process of social formation in which members of performance cultures – in this case, theatre training circles – cohere together around a set of guiding principles rather than any sole figure. These groupings exist at different scales or stages; some are self-sustaining, others more tenuous. Multipodal orbits critically describe how these groupings may cohere together and how such training circles can influence or be influenced by others in unique feedback loops. After analyzing various geographic, psycholinguistic, and metaphorical accounts of these social per-formations relative to Suzuki Cultures, the analytic is then applied to Viewpoints Cultures, or, the practitioners of Mary Overlie’s Viewpoints and its legacies through Anne Bogart and the SITI Company. This dissertation encourages practitioners and scholars, or teachers and students, to consider the way they “language” these trainings in a new light, and how to teach themselves. The two main types of language that are focused on are firstly the verbal and gestural deictics, or pointing words/gestures, which are inherent to these trainings; secondly metaphorical language is analyzed to reveal how practitioners describe the impact of the training individually or collectively
A Conversation with Masaaki Suzuki
No full textA conversation between Japanese organist, harpsichordist, and conductor Masaaki Suzuki and John Witvliet (director of the Worship Institute). Conversation topics include Gen evan Psalms, music of Bach, and Christian sacred music
D. T. Suzuki: post-orientalistisk zen-tænker
No full textENGLISH ABSTRACT: Japanese D. T. Suzuki occupies a unique position in the history of Zen Buddhism's migration from East to West. His many publications on Zen until a few decades ago were the only channel to knowledge about this universe, and 'Suzuki Zen' in itself has been a catalyst for lived Zen Buddhism in the West. This article describes Suzuki's life and places his understanding of Zen, Buddhism and religion in a historical and network-theoretical framework. It is concluded that the relevant critique of Suzuki ought to be counterbalanced, so that his achievements are also acknowledged 50 years after his death.DANSK RESUME: Japanske D. T. Suzuki indtager en unik position inden for zen-buddhismens vandring fra øst til vest. Hans mange udgivelser om zen har indtil for få årtier siden været eneste kanal til viden om dette univers, og 'Suzuki-zen' har i sig selv været katalysator for levende zen-buddhisme i Vesten. Artiklen beskriver Suzukis liv og sætter hans forståelse af zen, buddhisme og religion i en historisk og netværksteoretisk ramme. Det konkluderes, at den helt relevante kritik af Suzuki bør afbalanceres, så de faglige fortjenester faktisk også påskønnes 50 år efter hans død.</jats:p
Crossing boundaries: Suzuki Bokushi (1770-1842) and the rural elite of Tokugawa Japan
No full textThis thesis centres on a member of the rural elite, Suzuki Bokushi (1770-1842) of Echigo, and his social environment in Tokugawa Japan (1603-1868). Through a case study of the interaction between one individual’s life and his social conditions, the thesis participates in the ongoing scholarly reassessment of Tokugawa society, which had an apparently rigid political and social structure, yet many features that suggest a prototype of modernity. Bokushi’s life was multifaceted. He was a village administrator, landlord, pawnbroker, poet, painter, and great communicator, with a nation-wide correspondence network that crossed various social classes. His remote location and humble lifestyle notwithstanding, he was eventually able to publish a book about his region, Japan’s ‘snow country’. This thesis argues that Bokushi’s life epitomises both the potentiality and the restrictions of his historical moment for a well-placed member of the rural elite. An examination of Bokushi’s life and texts certainly challenges residual notions of the rigidity of social boundaries between the urban and the rural, between social statuses, and between cultural and intellectual communities. But Bokushi’s own actions and attitudes also show the force of conservative social values in provincial life. His activities were also still restrained by the external environment in terms of geographical remoteness, infrastructural limitation, political restrictions, cultural norms and the exigencies of human relationships. Bokushi’s life shows that in his day, Tokugawa social frameworks were being shaken and reshaped by people’s new attempts to cross conventional boundaries, within, however, a range of freedom that had both external and internal limits
The Suzuki contribution to the anglophone press of interwar Japan
No full textMy aim is to situate Suzuki’s English writings in the geopolitical context from which they emerged, considering the extent to which the historical contingencies of this period shaped the work and facilitated the continuation of his lifelong mission of promoting the understanding and appreciation of Japanese Mahayana Buddhism in the West. My intention is not in any way to detract from his achievements, but rather to contribute to a more rounded understanding of Daisetz Suzuki and his work, and one that enriches his legacy
Suzuki-Miyaura diversification of amino acids and dipeptides in aqueous media
No full textThe authors gratefully acknowledge the IWT Flanders and Janssen Pharmaceutica for financial support of T.W. This work is supported by the Scientific Research Network (WOG) “Sustainable chemistry for the synthesis of fine chemicals” of the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO).The Suzuki-Miyaura derivatisation of free amino acids, peptides and proteins is an attractive area with much potential utility for medicinal chemistry and chemical biology. Here we report the modification of unprotected and Boc-protected aromatic amino acids and dipeptides in aqueous media, enabling heteroarylation and vinylation. We systematically investigate the impact of the peptide backbone and adjacent amino acid residues upon the reaction. Our studies reveal that whilst asparagine and histidine hinder the reaction, by utilising dppf, a ferrocene-based bidentate phosphine ligand, cross-coupling of halophenylalanine or halotryptophan adjacent to such a residue could be enabled. Our studies reveal dppf to have good compatibility with all unprotected, proteinogenic amino acid side chains.Peer reviewe
D and MNCs' innovation performance: An integrated approach
No full textWe propose an integrated framework establishing the environmental and organizational contingencies under which the international dispersion of R&D activities benefits innovation performance in multinational firms. We suggest that R&D dispersion is more likely to enhance innovation performance – the smaller economies of scale and scope in R&D, the greater the technological strength of R&D locations and the stronger intra-firm knowledge integration. Employing a panel dataset of 175 R&D intensive US, EU, and Japanese firms, our findings provide support for this framework and suggest that these contingencies need to be taken into account simultaneously. Technology diversification strengthens rather than weakens the relationship between international R&D and performance, which we attribute to the positive influence of recombining knowledge sourced across diverse locations
Plectranthias ryukyuensis Wada, Suzuki, Senou, & Motomura 2020
No full textPlectranthias ryukyuensis Wada, Suzuki, Senou, & Motomura, 2020 Holotype: KPM-NI 50196, 58.4 mm SL. Type locality: off Hamahiga-jima Island, Okinawa Islands, Ryukyu Islands, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, depth 190 meters. Illustrations: Wada, Suzuki, Senou, & Motomura, 2020, figs. 1–5. Counts: D: X, 15 or 16. A: III, 7. P: 14. C: 13 or 14 (branched). V: 26 (10 + 16). S: 3. GR: 17 to 19 (5 or 6 + 12 or 13). LL: 29 or 30. Distribution: northwestern Pacific — known only from off the Ryukyu Islands, Okinawa, Japan.Published as part of Anderson, William D., 2022, Additions and emendations to the annotated checklist of anthiadine fishes (Percoidei: Serranidae), pp. 567-578 in Zootaxa 5195 (6) on page 572, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5195.6.5, http://zenodo.org/record/722395
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