
Interactions with Japanese Buddhism - Explorations and Viewpoints in Twentieth Century Kyōto - Michael Pye
8. Introducing Martin Heidegger
Interactions with Japanese Buddhism - Explorations and Viewpoints in Twentieth Century Kyōto - Michael Pye
Nishitani Keiji † [+ ]
Kyoto University
Nishitani Keiji (1900-1990) was the successor of the philosopher Nishida Kitaro at Kyoto University and a scholar of Zen Buddhism.
Description
Nishitani had a significant interaction with the Western world in the context of which he met Martin Heidegger in Germany, As a result, The Eastern Buddhist as able to publish two early writings by Heideggerin German with an introduction by Nishitani in English.