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Zen Notes by [ZEN BUDDHISM]. SOKEI-AN. FARKAS, Mary [editor]
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Book desription: New York: The First Zen Istitute of Amewrica, 1954-1964. First editions. 114 issues. Most issues are one large sheet folded to make four pages but some are stapled and longer. Self wrappers. Housed in publisher's boxes in the Japanese manner. All issues fine. Sokei-An Sasaki was a Japanese Rinzai roshi who founded the Buddhist Society of America (now the First Zen Institute of America) in New York City in 1930. Sokei-an, heir to the Ryomokyo-kai traditions as taught by Soyen Shaku and his disciple Sokatsu Shaku, was the first Zen master to settle permanently in the United States. His name is linked to the emerging interest in Buddhism in the early part of the Twentieth Century. One of his better known students was Alan Watts, who studied under him briefly in the late 1930s. In June 1942 Sokei-an was arrested by the FBI, labeled an "enemy alien" and detained at an internment camp in Fort Meade, Maryland (suffering from high blood pressure and strokes while there). His students petitioned the government for his release, and he was finally released from custody in August of 1943. His health in decline, he then married American Ruth Fuller Everett. He died in May of 1945 without leaving behind a Dharma heir. Mary Farkas (1911-1992) was the director of the First Zen Institute of America (FZIA), running the center's administrative functions for many years following the death of her teacher (Sokei-an) in 1945. Though she was not a teacher of Zen Buddhism in any traditional sense of the word, she did help to carry on the lineage of Sokei-an and also was editor of the FZIA's journal, Zen Notes, starting with Volume 1 in 1954. Additionally, she also edited books about Sokei-an, i.e. "The Zen Eye" and "Zen Pivots." Through her transcriptions of his talks, the institute was able to continue on the lineage without having a formal teacher (Sokei-an left no Dharma heir)". Offered here is an unbroken run of the first ten years of this historically important journal. Of note is the fact that one of Gary Synder's first publications is to be found herein; "Anyone with Yama-Bushi Tendencies".
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