ABSTRACT
On 16 May 1958, Shin’ichi Hisamatsu (1889-1980) met with C.G.Jung at Jung’s home outside of Zurich. Hisamatsu, an outstanding Zen layman and professor of Buddhism, was on his way back to Japan after lecturing on Zen Buddhism and Zen culture at Harvard University the previous year. On his one and only trip abroad, Hisamatsu was eager to meet and have discussions with leading figures in the fields of religion, philosophy, and psychology. He had had a number of discussions in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with the Protestant theologian Paul Tillich. On 18 May, two days after Hisamatsu’s meeting with Jung, the German thinker Martin Heidegger led a colloquy with Hisamatsu at Freiburg University.
