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Sallie B. King (1952-)

King, a Quaker and Buddhist, is Professor Emerita of Philosophy and Religion at James Madison University and Affiliated Faculty, Professor of Buddhist Studies, Department of Theology, Georgetown University. She is the author, co-editor or translator of numerous works on Buddhism, Engaged Buddhism, Buddhist-Christian dialogue, interfaith dialogue, and the cross-cultural philosophy of religion.

PDF: The Active Self: A Philosophical Study of The Buddha Nature Treatise and Other Chinese Buddhist Texts
by Sallie Behn King
Dissertation, Temple Univcisity, 1981

PDF: Buddha Nature
by Sallie B. King
SUNY Series in Buddhist Studies, 1991

PDF: Journey in Search of the Way:
The Spiritual Autobiography of Satomi Myōdō
Translated from the Japanese and annotated by Sallie B. King

PDF: The Buddha Nature: True Self as Action
by Sallie Behn King
Religious Studies, Vol. 20, No. 2 (Jun., 1984), pp. 255-267.

PDF: Awakening Stories of Zen Buddhist Women
by Sallie King
in: Buddhism in Practice, Buddhism in practice, edited by Donald S. Lopez, Jr. - Abridged ed. pp. 397-408. Princeton Readings in Religions. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995, 2007.

The translations are from lizuka Koji, ed., Sanzen Taiken Shu (A Collection of Meditation Experiences), with a Foreword by Nagasawa Sozen (Tokyo: Chuo Bukkyosha, 1956), pp. 30-38 and 242-46.

Social reform came to the Soto sect, as to much of the rest of Japan, in
the Meiji era and especially after World War II. But it was not until 1970 that
nuns were formally permitted to hold meditation retreats by themselves, without
male supervision. The selections below give accounts of women-only meditation
retreats held in the 1940s and 1950s, led by a nun ahead of her time.

These selections are excerpted from a text entitled A Collection of Meditation
Experiences, published in japan in 1956. The book records the meditation experiences
of laywomen and nuns practicing under the Zen master and nun, 長沢祖禅
Nagasawa Sozen Roshi. (Her family name means Long Valley; her Buddhist name
means Zen-ancestor.) Nagasawa Roshi was in her time perhaps the only nun
directing a japanese Zen nunnery and practice center and holding meditation
retreats without the supervision of a male Zen master. She was a disciple of the
famous 原田(大雲)祖岳 Harada (Daiun) Sogaku (1871-1961) Roshi, who,
though a member of the Soto Zen lineage, supplemented traditional Soto practices
with Rinzai Zen koan practice. The present selections show Nagasawa Roshi at work,
training nuns and laywomen in the Tokyo Nuns' Practice Center. Her nun disciples
themselves had previously undertaken an extensive alms-begging tour in order
to raise funds to build the meditation hall in which the retreats were held.