Nanzan Library of Asian Religion and Culture

A collection of books published in collaboration with the University of Hawai'i Press on topics related to religion and culture in East Asia. Copies can be ordered from the UH Press website and most academic book sellers.

  • Yasukuni Fundamentalism Cover

    Yasukuni Fundamentalism

    Japanese Religions and the Politics of Restoration

    Mark R. Mullins
    University of Hawai'i Press, 2021

  • Engaging Japanese Philosophy Cover

    Engaging Japanese Philosophy

    A Short History

    Thomas P. Kasulis
    University of Hawai'i Press, 2018

  • Clear Serenity, Quiet Insight Cover

    Clear Serenity, Quiet Insight

    T'ien-tai Chih-i's Mo-ho chih-kuan

    Paul L. Swanson
    University of Hawai'i Press, 2017

  • Secrecy's Power Cover

    Secrecy's Power

    Covert Shin Buddhists in Japan and Contradictions of Concealment

    Clark Chilson
    University of Hawai'i Press, 2014

  • Nothingness and Desire Cover

    Nothingness and Desire

    An East-West Philosophical Antiphony

    James W. Heisig
    University of Hawai'i Press, 2013

  • Celebrity Gods Cover

    Celebrity Gods

    New Religions, Media, and Authority in Occupied Japan

    Benjamin Dorman
    University of Hawai'i Press, 2012

  • Japanese Philosophy: A Sourcebook Cover

    Japanese Philosophy: A Sourcebook

    Edited by James W. Heisig, Thomas P. Kasulis, John C. Maraldo
    University of Hawai'i Press, 2011

  • Zen Sand Cover

    Zen Sand

    The Book Of Capping Phrases For Kōan Practice

    Victor Sōgen Hori
    University of Hawai'i Press, 2003

  • The Record of Linji Cover

    The Record of Linji

    Translation and commentary by Ruth Fuller Sasaki; Edited by Thomas Yūhō Kirchner
    University of Hawai'i Press, 2008

  • Nanzan Guide to Japanese Religions Cover

    Nanzan Guide to Japanese Religions

    Edited by Paul L. Swanson and Clark Chilson
    University of Hawai'i Press, 2006

  • The Logic of Nothingness Cover

    The Logic of Nothingness

    A Study Of Nishida Kitarō

    Robert J. J. Wargo
    University of Hawai'i Press, 2005

  • Philosophers of Nothingness Cover

    Philosophers of Nothingness

    An Essay on the Kyoto School

    James W. Heisig
    University of Hawai'i Press, 2001

  • Absolute Delusion, Perfect Buddhahood Cover

    Absolute Delusion, Perfect Buddhahood

    The Rise and Fall of a Chinese Heresy

    Jamie Hubbard
    University of Hawai'i Press, 2001

  • Christianity Made in Japan Cover

    Christianity Made in Japan

    A Study of Indigenous Movements

    Mark R. Mullins
    University of Hawai'i Press, 1998

  • Pruning the Bodhi Tree Cover

    Pruning the Bodhi Tree

    The Storm Over Critical Buddhism

    Edited by Jamie Hubbard and Paul L. Swanson
    University of Hawai'i Press, 1997

  • Rude Awakenings Cover

    Rude Awakenings

    Zen, The Kyoto School, and the Question of Nationalism

    Edited by James W. Heisig and John C. Maraldo
    University of Hawai'i Press, 1995