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HUNGARIAN PUBLICATIONS ON ZEN / CH'AN
(in chronological order)
by PÁL MIKLÓS
- Miklós, Pál: A Zen és a müvészet (Zen and the Arts / ). Budapest, Magvetö Publishing House, 1978. 169 pp.
Short history of Chinese Chan and Japanese Zen emphasizing the poetical side of the anecdotes; poetry and the arts -- painting, garden, the way of tea, etc. -- in Zen.
- Genro: Tetteki tôsui. "Vasfurulya". 100 zen-koan. Translated by Dr. Ernö Hetényi. Budapest: Buddhista Misszió Publishing House, 1982. 124 pp.
Hungarian translation of Tetteki tôsui; after the text of Nyogen Senzaki.
- Mumon, Ekai: A nincs kapu. A Mumonkan Gyüjtemény. A Zen Buddhizmus klasszikus koan gyüteménye. (There is no Gate. The Mumonkan Collection, a Classic Koan Collection of Zen Buddhism ). Translated by Antal Dobosy. Budapest: Buddhista Misszió Publishing House, 1983. 119 pp.
Hungarian translation of the Wumenguan / Mumonkan ñ„ñ following Sekida's version in "Two Zen Classics".
- Varsányi, György: A Csan buddhizmus története (The History of Chan Buddhism ). Budapest: Buddhista Misszió Publishing House, 1984. 101 pp.
A short history of Chan thought with a bibliography on Chan.
- Hetényi, Ernö: A buddhizmus zen -- aspektusa japán szövegek tükrében. Karlfried Graf Dürckheim tanulmányainak fölhasználásával. (The Zen Aspect of Buddhism Reflected in Japanese Texts. After the Studies of K.G. Dürckheim. ). Budapest: Buddhista Misszió Publishing House, 1984. 56 pp.
- Wei, Lang: A hatodik Patriárcha sutrája (The Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch). Translated by Dr. Ernö Hetényi. Budapest: Buddhista Misszió Publishing House, 1984. 156 pp.
Probably follows Raoul von Muralt's translation of the same text.
- Miklós, Pál (tr.) Kapujanincs Átjáró. Kinai Csan-buddhista példazatok. (The Gateless Gate. Chinese Chan-Buddhist Anecdotes ). Budapest: Helikon Publishing House, 1987. 224 pp.
Hungarian translation with introduction and comments of a selection of the Records of Linji / Rinzai, the full text of the Wumenguan / Mumonkan and the basic text (without Yuanwu's comments) of the Biyanlu / Hekiganroku by the sinologist and retired director of the Museum of Far Eastern Arts in Budapest who still teaches at the University of Budapest and has kindly contributed this bibliography.
- Fromm, Erich & Suzuki, Daisetz & DeMartino, Richard: Zen-buddhizmus és pszicho-analizis (Zen Buddhism and Psychoanalysis. ). Translated by Gy. László Horváth and Szabolcs Várady, with introductory essay by Pál Miklós. Budapest: Helikon, 1989. 224 pp.
Author:Urs APP
Last updated: 4/20/95