Robert Linssen
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Robert Linssen was a Belgian Zen
Buddhist and author. Linssen wrote in French, but many of his texts have been translated into other languages including English. Like other Western authorities on the subject of Zen Buddhism (such as the author Alan Watts
), Linssen's ideas about Buddhism in general and Zen Buddhism in particular have been influential both to practitioners of Zen and to academics.
Zen
Zen is a school of Mahāyāna Buddhism founded by the Buddhist monk Bodhidharma. The word Zen is from the Japanese pronunciation of the Chinese word Chán , which in turn is derived from the Sanskrit word dhyāna, which can be approximately translated as "meditation" or "meditative state."Zen...
Buddhist and author. Linssen wrote in French, but many of his texts have been translated into other languages including English. Like other Western authorities on the subject of Zen Buddhism (such as the author Alan Watts
Alan Watts
Alan Wilson Watts was a British philosopher, writer, and speaker, best known as an interpreter and popularizer of Eastern philosophy for a Western audience. Born in Chislehurst, he moved to the United States in 1938 and began Zen training in New York...
), Linssen's ideas about Buddhism in general and Zen Buddhism in particular have been influential both to practitioners of Zen and to academics.
Works
- Living Zen (Essai sur le bouddhisme en général et sur le zen en particulier.). 1954.
- Zen: The wisdom of the East, a new way of life (Le Zen: Sagesse d'Extreme-Orient: Un Nouvel Art De Vivre?). 1969.
- Zen: The Art of Life
- Spiritualite de la matiere
- La Meditation veritable: Etude des pulsions pre-mentales
- Amour, Sexe et Spiritualité
- Au-delà du mirage de l'égo
- Au-delà du hasard et de l'anti-hasard
- Science et spiritualité
- Krishnamurti psychologue de l'ère nouvelle
- La Mutation Spirituelle Du IIIe Millenaire