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...PERKINS Kyoto, Japan...
Mehmet Fuat Koprulu, Turkish statesman, and Muhammed Nizamuddin, professor of Persian at the University of Osmania in India, are already in Cambridge. They will be joined late this month by Shujiro Shimada, Curator in the Department of Art at Kyoto National Museum...
...stayed for six months; the next year she went back and put in a full year's study at Kyoto's Nanzenji Temple. Each day she rose at 5 a.m. to meditate for two hours before breakfast, then went to the temple to meditate from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., with a few minutes off for a meager lunch. After supper at home she would return to the temple for meditation with the monks until 9:30 at night, then return home, take a bath and meditate until bedtime, around midnight. In 1944. after her husband...
...Cult Phase. With Dr. Sasaki she worked at Manhattan's First Zen Institute of America. In 1950 Ruth Sasaki returned to Kyoto, where she rented a small house built for a retired roshi on the site of what had been the Ryosen-An branch of the Daitokuji Temple. Amply provided with funds from her first husband's estate, she remodeled and enlarged the house to provide a center and library for U.S. students of Zen. She ran into an unexpected obstacle when the Daitokuji Temple insisted that the new center be designated as the restored sub-temple...
...last summer, Ruth Sasaki has been holding regular classes in Zen for half a dozen pupils from 7 to 9 each night, aided by an English-speaking Japanese priest and Walter Nowick, a onetime student at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music who has been studying Zen in Kyoto since...