Zen Pioneer The Life and Works of Ruth Fuller Sasaki

Ruth Fuller Sasaki, a pivotal figure in the emergence of Zen Buddhism in the United States, helped to develop and establish what would become the First Zen Institute in New York City. Through her many achievements and as the only Westerner - and woman - to be made a priest of teh Daitoku-ji temple in its many centuries, Sasaki forever changed the face of Zen Buddhism. Three of her writings are included here, for the first time in book form: Zen: A Religion, Zen: A Method for Religious Awakening, and Rinzai Zen Study for Foreigners in Japan.

Isabel Stirling is the associate university librarian of the University of California, Berkeley