Book by Roshi Jiyu-Kennett, Daizui MacPhillamy

The Book of Life

Roshi Jiyu-Kennett

Daizui MacPhillamy

Religion & Spirituality

Shasta Abbey Press

Zen is Eternal Life is a practical and inspirational manual for all who wish to practice Zen. Roshi P.T.N.H. Jiyu-Kennett, the founder and former abbess of Shasta Abbey, expertly combines an introduction to the basic tenets of Buddhism with original translations of the teachings of Zen Masters Dogen and Keizan. Translated works include: Shushogi (Training and Enlightenment), Eihei-Shingi (Rules for Junior priests), Gakudo-yojinshu (Aspects of Zazen), Shobogenzo (The Treasure-eye of the True Teaching), Kyojukaimon (Giving and Receiving the Teaching of the Precepts) by Dogen Zenji, and Denkoroku (Transmission of the Light) by Keizan Zenji.

Zen is eternal life

Kennett, Jiyu

The monastic office

Unknown, Author

Buddhist Writings contains shorter and medium-length traditional Buddhist texts fundamental to the study and practice of Serene Reflection Meditation (Soto Zen). Included are complete translations of The Scripture of Brahma's Net (a source of the Mahayana Precepts) and The Scripture on Fully Perfected Enlightenment, neither previously available in full to the English-speaking general public. New translations of Bodhidharma's Discourse on Pure Meditation, Keizan's Instructions on How to Do Pure Meditation, and The Scripture on the Buddha's Last Teachings are also included, along with three key sections from the Lotus Scripture and two long aphoristic poems by Chinese Meditation Masters. These writings were translated from their Chinese versions, as given in the Taisho Gemban Daizokyo (the great collection of Scriptures and other religious writings in Chinese and Japanese) or in other reliable scholarly editions, by Rev. Hubert Nearman, with Rev. Master P.T.N.H. Jiyu-Kennett and Rev. Daizui MacPhillamy as consultants and editors. As with other translations from Shasta Abbey Press, these new translations make the Soto Zen tradition's writings easily accessible and comprehensible for western Buddhists. This book provides invaluable guidance for Buddhist practice. Buddhist Writings is handsomely covered with a durable plastic jacket with gold embossed lettering. Buddhist Writings is also specially bound so it will lie flat when open and, is pocket-sized for easy handling.

Buddhist Writings on Meditation and Daily Practice: The Serene Reflection Meditation Tradition

Buddhism

This novel is a compelling story of a Buddhist monk who undertakes a seemingly impossible task in order to fulfill his spiritual purpose to help those he had previously harmed. It shows how, in the process of converting his karma, he also transforms the lives of others. It is based on the life of an actual monk who lived during the 18th century in Japan and shows that no matter what a person has done, including murder and robbery, he can completely turn his life around and know the greatest fulfillment---the direct experience of the Eternal, the Buddha Nature---and can then commit his life to selfless service because it is his nature to do so.

Beyond the Pale of Vengeance

Kan Kikuchi

Literature & Fiction

Rev. Master Jiyu-Kennett was one of the first Western women ever to be recognized as a Zen Master. These are her words, as transcribed from the lectures she gave during her life. 
In this first volume, Rev. Master Jiyu-Kennett speaks of the basic aspects of Soto Zen in her down-to-earth, practical, and good-humored way. For those who did not have the opportunity to meet her, the book gives some of the flavor of what it was like to study with this remarkable Buddhist teacher. For those who did, it will add a new richness to their appreciation of her teaching.

Roar of the Tigress: The Oral Teachings of Rev. Master Jiyu-Kennett, Western Woman and Zen Master, Vol. 1

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Late in December of 1961, Peggy Kennett, British organist and medieval -music scholar, boarded a steamer headed for the Far East. Eight years later she returned to the West as one of the first Western women ever to be recognized as a Zen Master. These are her words, as transcribed from some of the more than one thousand tapes recorded of the lectures she gave until her death in 1996. In this first volume, Rev. Master Jiyu-Kennett speaks of the basic aspects of Soto Zen in her characteristic down-to-earth, practical, and good-humored way. For those who did not have the opportunity to meet her, this book gives some of the flavor of what it was like to study with this remarkable woman and Buddhist teacher. For those who did, it will add a new richness to their appreciation of her teaching.

Roar of the Tigress, Volume I

Jiyu-Kennett, Rev. Master P.T.N.H.

Originally published in two volumes, this book is based on the diaries of the years in Japan of Roshi Jiyu-Kennett, one of the first Western women to become a Zen Master. In addition to telling the story of Roshi Jiyu-Kennett's search for the Truth and how she found enlightenment in the midst of suffering, illness and hardship, it gives the reader a rare and illuminating insight into life in a large Zen training monastery. Above all this is a work of faith which demonstrates the perseverance, compassion and trust with which a person must enter the religious life if he or she wishes to understand its perfection. In Books One and Two (originally published as Volume One) Roshi Jiyu-Kennett describes her going to Japan and her life as a junior monk in one of the largest Zen monasteries of the country, including her first experience of enlightenment, her Transmission as heir in the Dharma to the Chief Abbot and her graduation as a full priest.

The Wild, White Goose

Jiyu-Kennett, Rev. Roshi P.T.N.H.

The Shōbōgenzō is the recognized spiritual masterpiece by the thirteenth-century Japanese Sōtō Zen Master Eihei Dōgen. It is comprised of discourses that he gave to his disciples, in person or in writing, at various times between 1231 and his death twenty-two years later at age fifty-three. These discourses cover a wide range of topics pertinent to those in monastic life though often also relevant to those training in lay life. He discusses matters of daily behavior and religious ceremonial as well as issues involving the Master-disciple relationship. He also explores the deeper meaning that informs the so-called Zen kōan stories, which often puzzle readers by their seeming illogicality and contrary nature.

Shobogenzo - Volume I of III: The Treasure House of the Eye of the True Teaching

Dōgen, Eihei

Shobogenzo - Volume II of III: The Treasure House of the Eye of the True Teaching

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