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Daisetz Suzuki (1870-1966)
Tōkeiji Gravestone
Chih-i. Temmei 3 [1783] woodcut

  • Official Tōkeji Temple Website. Professional photographs of the grounds, with items on precincts, history, cultural assets, seasonal photos. Twenty-four photos of the graveyard include the stone markers of the founder, Nun Kakusan (1252-1305), D.T. Suzuki (see thumbnail image), Nishida Kitarō (1881-1945), Watsuji Tetsurō (1889-1960), Tamura Toshiko (1884-1945), Shiga Mitsuko (1885-1976), Iwanami Shigeo (1881-1946) Nogami Toyoichirō (1883-1950), and Nogami Yaeko (1885-1985). (This is also the final resting place of R.H. Blyth (1898-1964), but his marker is not shown.)

  • Travel Guide to Tōkeji Temple.. . . and lots of other places. The photo at the top of the opening page shows Tokeiji's Taihei Hall, a small structure where its religious services (including marriage) are performed today. It enshrines images of Sakyamuni and the "Great Wise Bodhisattva Who Responds to the Pleas of the World" (Taishō Kanzeon Bosatsu), whose scriptural source is the Lotus Sutra, Ch. 25. [N.B. "Rikai" in the caption is surely a misprint for "Rinzai."]

  • Mujū's Chōboji Temple. Kigasaki Chōboji, 2-chōme, Yadamachi, Higashi-ku, Nagoya 461. In preparation for EXPO 2005 AICHI JAPAN, to be held in an area just east of the of Nagoya, the municipal government appears to be making every effort to put the city online.

  • Great Cessation and Contemplation. Click "Books" for Paul L. Swanson's CD ROM "provisional printing" of the Mo-ho chih-kuan (Maka shikan) by Chih-i (C.E. 538-597). Preface, detailed outline, annotated text: Chapters I-VI with Endnotes, Appendixes, Bonus Materials, etc. Pages: xviii + 475 (annotated Text), 339 (Appendixes), and 320 (Translation without Notes).

  • PreModern Japanese Studies [Mailing List] (pmjs) "Interdisciplinary forum for those doing research into earlier periods of Japanese art, culture, history, religion and literature." Message "logs", digests, "threads" (discussions), and "bibliography of translations from classical Japanese."

  • University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies Electronic Publications. (a) Michigan Classics Online "breathes second life into important books that have gone out of print [and]. . . will be published here as opposed to the Classics Series when they lack the potential for undergraduate classroom use"; (b)CJS Faculty Series. Interested CJS Faculty members edit their own series, reprinting important books, journals, and archival materials. (c)Out-of-Print Books Online. Out of print Occasional Papers in Japanese Studies and the Bibliographical Series; also a number of Michigan Papers in Japanese Studies.