{"first_publish_date": "December 1978", "key": "/works/OL146765W", "title": "Zen and Hasidism", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL2120176A"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["Hasidism", "Relations", "Zen Buddhism"], "covers": [14537737], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Zen and Hasidism presents a comparative study of Zen and Hasidism, and suggests ways in which Jewish spiritual life can be enriched by a knowledge of Zen meditation practices - while remaining Jewish.\n\nIn this quest, the author, a well-known author and playwright, has collected sources on Zen and Judaism, both Hasidic and non-Hasidic, dividing them into four sections: \"The Monastery and the Yeshivot\", \"The Virtue of Sitting\" on Meditation, \"Can a Jew Practice Zen and/or Buddhism and Still Remain a Jew?\", with an overview. Among the contributors are such noted Jewish scholars as Louis Ginzberg, Jiri Langer, Hyman G. Enelow, Rivka Schatz-Uffenheimer, Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and others.\n\nJiri Langer's account of his life in a Belzer yeshiva, coupled with John Blofeld's Life in a Zen Monastery, Rivka Schatz's study of The State of Nothingness and Contemplative Prayer, coupled with Self-Extinction in Zen and Hasidism, by Jacob Yuroh Teshima, along with two dozen other selections, provide a wide-ranging and balanced account of the similarities and differences between the two mystical traditions."}, "latest_revision": 8, "revision": 8, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-10-19T22:24:18.821585"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2024-08-04T06:07:42.474080"}}