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Zen Pioneer: The Life & Works of Ruth Fuller Sasaki
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Product Description: Ruth Fuller Sasaki, who died in 1967, was a pivotal figure in the emergence and development of Zen Buddhism in the United States. She is the only Westerner—and the only woman—to be made a priest of a Daitoku-ji temple and was mentor to Burton Watson, Philip Yampolsky, and Gary Snyder, and mother-in-law of Alan Watts...read more
By Gary Snyder (foreword by) and Isabel Stirling
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Hardcover:

9781593761103 | 1 edition (Counterpoint, September 10, 2006), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A portrait of the twentieth-century American woman who has been credited with bringing Zen Buddhism to the western world discusses her relationships with such individuals as Burton Watson, Gary Snyder, and Alan Watts; studies under master Nanshinken; and contributions to the development of the First Zen Institute in New York City.

Paperback:

9781593761707 | Counterpoint, August 28, 2007, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Ruth Fuller Sasaki, who died in 1967, was a pivotal figure in the emergence and development of Zen Buddhism in the United States.

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