PART 1: FUNDAMENTALS OF ZEN - Zen and Buddhism - The Core of Zen: the Ordinary Mind is Tao - 'Life and Death' and 'Good and Evil' in Zen - Emptiness - God, Emptiness, and the True Self - The Concept of Self as Reflected in Zen Buddhist Literature - Education in Zen - PART 2: ZEN, BUDDHISM AND WESTERN THOUGHT - Substance, Process, and Emptiness: Aristotle, Whitehead, and Zen - The Problem of Death in East and West Immortality, Eternal Life, Unbornness - Sunyata as Formless Form: Plato and Mahayana Buddhism - The Self in Jung and Zen - PART 3: CURRENT ISSUES IN BUDDHISM - Time in Buddhism - On the Occasion of Buddha Day 1990: the Future Task of Buddhism - Transformation in Buddhism - Religious Tolerance and Human Rights: a Buddhist Perspective - PART 4: ZEN AND JAPANESE CULTURE - Shinto and Buddhism: the Two Major Religions of Japan - Zen in Japan - The Japanese View of Truth - Index