1. Hajime Nakamura, The Ways of Thinking of Eastern Peoples, (Tokyo: Japanese National Commission for UNESCO, (1960) p. 24.
2. E. Gilson, God and Philosophy (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1941) pp. 63–4.
3. The statement ‘by abandoning the four terms and wiping out the hundred negations say what the Buddha-dharma is’ demands that the student express the truth of Buddha without any conceptualization or categorization. See Zen Dust by Isshu Miura and Ruth Fuller Sasaki (New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1966) p. 269.
4. Paul Tillich, The Courage to Be (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1957) p. 40.
5. This is the first of ‘The Four Great Vows’ which are fundamental to Buddhist life. They are as follows: However innumerable beings are, I vow to save them; However inexhaustible the passions are, I vow to extinguish them; However immeasurable the Dharmas are, I vow to master them; However incomparable the Buddha-truth is, I vow to attain it. (See D. T. Suzuki: Manual of Zen Buddhism, London: Rider, 1957, p. 14.)