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Most of this collection of papers were presented at the Zen Buddhism and Psychology Conference that took place in Kyoto, Japan, in 1999, and included more than ninety participants from Japan, America, UK, Belgium, Holland and Germany. Represented were both Jungian and Freudian analysts, along with other therapeutic and non-therapeutic orientations. The papers included here, along with later additions, represent that diversity.
It is an excellent volume for those who are interested in depth psychology and Zen Buddhism. Most papers are well thought out, lively as well as scholarly; several effectively demonstrate different ways in which aspects of Buddhism can beneficially enter into a dialogue, even for some a synthesis, with analytic work. Particularly interesting is the presentation of a new translation of the Jung-Hisamatsu conversation, a conversation which Hisamatsu, an eminent Zen philosopher, travelled to Zurich to initiate with Jung. While I don't always agree with Muromoto's footnoted conclusions regarding aspects of the exchange, I realize our different interpretations result from imagining quite different inflections of speech/meaning from the transcript.