Heinrich Dumoulin
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Heinrich Dumoulin, S.J. was a Jesuit theologian, a widely published author on Zen, and a professor of philosophy and history at Sophia University in Tokyo, where he was Professor Emeritus. He was the
Heinrich Dumoulin
Hugo Enomiya-Lassalle
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Hugo Makibi Enomiya-Lassalle was a German Jesuit priest and one of the foremost teachers to embrace both Roman Catholic Christianity and Zen Buddhism.
Heinrich Dumoulin
…receiving his doctoral degree in 1929, and was ordained as a Jesuit priest in 1933. In 1935, he was sent to Japan on missions under the guidance of Fr. Hugo Enomiya-Lassalle, where he became fluent in the Shinto religion and Buddhism. Dumoulin was a scholar of Zen Buddhism and wrote several books on its history, first urged…
Father Hugo Enomiya-Lassalle
Memorial Cathedral for World Peace, at Naka-ku Hiroshima, Japan, design by Togo Murano in 1954.
Japanese Gardens Buddha