Norman A. Waddell (1940-)

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Norman Waddell born in Washington, D.C. in 1940, was attracted to Japan by the works of the legendary D. T. Suzuki and his protégée R. H. Blyth, taught at Otani University for over thirty years, and was editor of the Eastern Buddhist Journal for several decades. He has published more than a dozen books on Japanese Zen Buddhism and is considered one of the finest translators of sacred texts of our time. He is the authoritative English translator of works by and about Hakuin.

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[永平] 道元希玄 [Eihei] Dōgen Kigen (1200-1253)

PDF: Dōgen's Hōkyō-ki
tr. by Norman Waddell
The Eastern Buddhist (N.S.), 1977, 10/2: pp. 102-139; 1978, 11/1: pp. 66-84.

PDF: The Heart of Dōgen's Shōbōgenzō
tr. by Waddell, Norman, and Masao Abe
Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002.

Abbreviations vii
Translators’ Introduction ix

ONE
Fukanzazengi 普勧坐禅儀
(Universal Promotion of the Principles of Zazen) 1

TWO
Bendōwa 辦道話
(Negotiating the Way) 7

THREE
Ikka Myōju 一顆明珠
(One Bright Pearl) 31

FOUR
Genjōkōan 現成公案
(Manifesting Suchness) 39

FIVE
Uji 有時
(Being-Time) 47

SIX
Busshō 仏性
(Buddha-nature) 59

SEVEN
Sammai-Ō-Zammai 三昧王三昧
(The King of Samadhis Samadhi) 99

EIGHT
Shōji 生死
(Birth and Death) 105

NINE
Zazengi 坐禅儀
(The Principles of Zazen) 109

Bibliography 111
Index 113

至道無難 Shidō Munan [or Bunan] (1603–1676)

即心記 Sokushinki (On the mind, 1670)

The Eastern Buddhist, New Series. 1970, NS03-2, Shidō Munan, Sokushin-ki, Trans. by 小堀宗柏 Kobori Sōhaku & Norman A. Waddell, pp. 89-118. PDF
The Eastern Buddhist, New Series. 1971, NS04-1, Shidō Munan, Sokushin-ki (2), Trans. by 小堀宗柏 Kobori Sōhaku & Norman A. Waddell, pp. 116-123. PDF
The Eastern Buddhist, New Series. 1971, NS04-2, Shidō Munan, Sokushin-ki (concluded), Trans. by 小堀宗柏 Kobori Sōhaku & Norman A. Waddell, pp. 119-127. PDF

PDF: The Biography of Shidō Munan Zenji
(Kaisan Shidō Munan Anju Zenji anroku)
Compiled by Fufu-anju Enji (Tōrei Enji, 1721-1792)
With an Introduction by 小堀宗柏 Kobori Sōhaku PDF
Trans. by Kobori Sōhaku & Norman A. Waddell
The Eastern Buddhist, New Series. 1970, NS03-1, pp. 122-138.

盤珪永琢 Bankei Yōtaku (1622-1693)

PDF: The Unborn: The Life & Teachings of Zen Master Bankei
by Norman Waddell
Berkeley, CA: North Point Press, rev. ed., 2000, pp. 1-138.

D. T. Suzuki
Dōgen, Hakuin, Bankei: Three Types of Thought in Japanese Zen
PDF: in: Selected Works of D.T. Suzuki, Volume I: Zen Chapter 6, pp. 68-93.

The English version published here originally was published in The Eastern Buddhist (New Series) 9, no. 1 (1976): 1–17; and 9, no. 2 (1976): 1–20. The translator of the essay, Norman Waddell, has substantially revised his earlier translation of the essay for this volume and has updated some of the references in the footnotes as well.

賣茶翁 Baisaō (1675-1763)

Waddell, Norman
PDF: The old tea seller: The life and poetry of Baisaō.
The Eastern Buddhist 17: 93–123. (1984)

PDF: The Old Tea Seller: Life and Zen Poetry in 18th Century Kyoto
Baisaō by Norman Waddell
Counterpoint Press, Berkeley, 2008, 222 p.

白隠慧鶴 Hakuin Ekaku (1686-1769)

息耕錄開筵普說 Sokkō-roku Kaien-fusetsu
PDF: The Essential Teachings of Zen Master Hakuin
Translated by Norman Waddell

Introductory to Lectures on the Records of Old Sokko

PDF: Talks by Hakuin: Introductory Lectures on the Records of Old Sokkō (Sokkō roku kaien fusetsu)
Translated by Norman Waddell
1. The Eastern Buddhist. New series, Autumn 1985, 18(2), pp.79-92
2. The Eastern Buddhist. New series, Autumn 1986, 19(2), pp.75-84
3. The Eastern Buddhist. New series, Autumn 1987, 20(2), pp.89-99
4. The Eastern Buddhist. New series, Spring 1988, 21(1), pp.101-117
5. The Eastern Buddhist. New series, Autumn 1989, 22(2), pp.85-104
6. The Eastern Buddhist. New series, Spring 1990, 23(1), pp.114-137
7. The Eastern Buddhist. New series, Spring 1991, 24(1), pp.97-122

Itsumadegusa 壁生草
PDF: Wild Ivy: The Spiritual Autobiography of Zen Master Hakuin
Translated by Norman Waddell

Contents
Translator’s Introduction
1. Authentic Zen: The Danger of False Teachings (extract)
2. Post-satori Practice: Zen Sickness
3. Mount Iwataki: Reflections on Do-Nothing Zen
4. Zen Sickness
Appendix
Preface to Idle Talk on a Night Boat

PDF: Zen Words for the Heart
Hakuin’s Commentary on The Heart Sutra
Translated by Norman Waddell

The Text of
The Great Wisdom Perfection Heart Sutra

The Bodhisattva Free and Unrestricted Seeing practices the deep wisdom paramita. At that time he
clearly sees all five skandhas are empty and is delivered from all distress and suffering.
“Shariputra, form is no other than emptiness, emptiness no other than form. Form is emptiness,
emptiness is form. And it is the same for sensation, perception, conception, and consciousness.
Shariputra, all things are empty appearances. They are not born, not destroyed, not stained, not pure;
they do not increase or decrease. Therefore, in emptiness there is no form, no sensation, no
perception, no conception, no consciousness; no eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, mind; no form, sound,
scent, taste, touch, dharmas; no realm of seeing, and so on to no realm of consciousness; no ignorance,
no end of ignorance, and so on to no old age and death, and no ending of old age and death; no pain,
karma, extinction, Way; no wisdom, no attaining. As he has nothing to attain, he is a Bodhisattva.
Because he depends upon the wisdom paramita, his mind is unhindered; as his mind is unhindered, he
knows no fear, is far beyond all delusive thought, and reaches final nirvana. Because all Buddhas of
past, present, and future depend upon the wisdom paramita, they attain highest enlightenment. Know
therefore that the wisdom paramita is the great mantra, the great and glorious mantra, the highest
mantra, the supreme mantra, which is capable of removing all suffering. It is true. It is not false.
Therefore, I preach the wisdom paramita mantra, preach this mantra and say:
GATE GATE PARAGATE PARASAMGATE BODHI SVAHA!

PDF: Beating the Cloth Drum
The Letters of Zen Master Hakuin
Translated by Norman Waddell

1. To Watanabe Sukefusa Letter 1, 1714
2. To Zen Monks Kin and Koku Letter 2, 1729
3. To Layman Ishii Letter 3, 1734
4. To the Priest of Ryōtan-ji Letter 4, 1742
5. To Attendant Kō Letter 5, c. 1743–47
6. To the Rōshi at Ryōsen-ji Letter 6, c. 1746–56
7. To a Certain Layman Letter 7, 1748
8. To Senior Monk Gin Letter 8, c. 1752
9. To Murabayashi Koremitsu Letter 9, 1755
10. To Yoda Letter 10, 1755
11. Two Letters to Sakai Kantahaku Sensei Letters 11–12, c. 1755
12. Six Letters to Senior Priest Zenjo Letters 13–18, 1757–58
13. The Hakuin-Tōrei Letters Letters 19–24, 1757–60
14. To Daimyo Matsudaira Sadataka Letter 25, 1760
15. Two Letters to Katayama Shunnan Letters 26–27, 1761
16. To a Donor Letter 28, 1762–63

PDF: Hakuin’s Precious Mirror Cave: a Zen miscellany
edited and translated by Norman Waddell.

1: The Tale of My Childhood
2: The Tale of Yūkichi of Takayama
3: Idle Talk on a Night Boat
4: Old Granny’s Tea-Grinding Songs
5: An Account of the Precious Mirror Cave
6: The Chronological Biography of Zen Master Hakuin by Tōrei Enji

荊叢毒蘂 Keisō dokuzui
PDF: Complete Poison Blossoms from a Thicket of Thorn: The Zen Records of Hakuin Ekaku
by Hakuin Zenji, tr. by Norman Waddell
Counterpoint, 2017, 752

鈴木大拙貞太郎 Suzuki Daisetsu Teitarō (1870-1966)

『日本的霊性』 Nihonteki reisei
PDF: Tr. by Norman Waddell as Japanese Spirituality, 1972

D. T. Suzuki
Dōgen, Hakuin, Bankei: Three Types of Thought in Japanese Zen
PDF: in: Selected Works of D.T. Suzuki, Volume I: Zen Chapter 6, pp. 68-93.

The English version published here originally was published in The Eastern Buddhist (New Series) 9, no. 1 (1976): 1–17; and 9, no. 2 (1976): 1–20. The translator of the essay, Norman Waddell, has substantially revised his earlier translation of the essay for this volume and has updated some of the references in the footnotes as well.

Reginald Horace Blyth (1898-1964)

PDF: Poetry and Zen: Letters and Uncollected Writings of R. H. Blyth
edited with an introduction by Norman Waddell

一休骸骨 Ikkyū gaikotsu
tr. as "Ikkyū's Skeletons" by R. H. Blyth & N. A. Waddell, The Eastern Buddhist, N.S. VI:1 (1973), 111-125.