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of the Buddhist scriptures.

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that s Buddha's re gious&perience, vuh/fe time re 'ding all of Buddha^ teachings h resteer,

is being the e/crgss cr c~ that 7bd*y, another

as the source

approach to Zer h the Orient negards Zen

ofa cess

to the 0d stereo

yeperienoe.

orig

b/e re/ig

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thought, as point

of true being beyond a/la

Jsi th

s

Zer s seer ?s the qnour& out of which a/I m £ ous thought sJhen cr)e vie as Zer freely cove re? ana ? ,^r its inner ta :

serse is

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in this fight,

c&jrse, while -

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Zer cr Christian Zen.

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Zeri zees Its uniqueness in its efforts to transcend denowwafi'cna I distinctions. This is perhaps the principal reason for the sympa-

thetic understanding

of Zen shorn by Japanese intellectuals,

who fee/ that Zen has a soeaa' signiffca/nce in helpxhg '

wan

to

oneate a higher culture 7b turn) in

now

to the h /story

China In A.P.£ZO,

i/jhen

of Zer> Buddhism: it originated

Bcdhidharwa

Japan), the tmnty-m nth Patriarch of

'

Mahayana.

and declared the

to China from India.,

(called'Panama, in

Buddhism, came

rnnpentarce

of trae

as distinguished trow merely studying or lecturing atout Suddhist scriptures. Ten Buddhism (in Chinese, Chan) awareness,

of the practical

developed under the influence

Chinese

mine/,

for about seven hundred years, during the T'angand Sarg dynasties, Chinese

In the thirteenth)

and Japanese

Zen Buddhism enjoyed ct period offpri/iidnce. century great Zen masters doth Chinese

—

— drought It to Tapxmi,

where it -flourished in A

re /j cultural climate.

Japanese Zen Buddhism, ewer the course oftts development, produced two characteristically different currents. One is the St to sect, lAJh/ch teaches the oneness of zazen *practice and $a tori awareness; the other is the Rlnzrai sect, which emphasizes sa tori experience through the

hand discipline of kcan

erercise.

Among the Various schools of gihzai Zen, only that of dakuln r Zenji fl(?8£~176e) surges today. Zen Master Maham established the so-called koan method ^Kanna Zen) to bring the stuc/ent to the great experience

ofsafari awareness, and was

mental in re?

monastic

same

time,

?

present form. Attfre

^ak/m showed his great compassion toward the

Words Appearing m oUcr on first use may be rbvna'in the dossary. Japanese persona 1 nawes cuegiven in Western, erOer; that is, M'tri Sfrrrwes fThe apparent exception is Hahiin Zenji: Zenji is net a wiw tvC* titie Mat

* *

!*st.

life in its

also Instru-

CUstcwArity

follotvS

the scrrwyie)

FbnewcH

common people through

his,

preaching, his Zen paintings,

and

which was readily intelligible to the ordinary reader— unusual for Buddhist worths of that period.

especially his writing,

This traditional tiaku in Ten school was first introduced to

Master Seen Shaku, Abbot of&ngatyY /