Franck, Frederick. The Buddha Eye: An Anthology of the Kyoto School. New York: Crossroad Publishing, 1982.

Abstract

The Kyoto School is a system of thought, a way of "doing" philosophy, which is characterized by its fidelity to, and rootedness in, the Mahayana Buddhist tradition, coupled with its openness to Western thought and its commitment to bringing about a meeting of East and West in "a unity beyond differences." It thus provides solid ground not only for the dialogue between Mahayana Buddhism and other world religions but for the broader dialogue between religion as such and the modern world in its characteristic aspects of science, secularization, and operational atheism. The Buddha Eye is an anthology of significant but unavailable writings of the major figures of the Kyoto School. Included here are essays - culled primarily from The Eastern Buddhist - by Nishitani Keiji, Abe Masao, Ueda Shizuteru, Hisamatsu Shin'ichi, Takeuchi Yoshinori, D. T. Suzuki (represented by four posthumous essays), and others. The arrangement of the material as well as Frederick Franck's expansive "Prologue" and his prefaces to each of the individual selections allow The Buddha Eye to serve as a basic introduction to this liveliest current of contemporary Buddhism.