The Zen Peacemakers is a diverse network of socially engaged Buddhists, currently including the formal structures of the Zen Peacemakers International...
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Krishna Das (singer) (section Zen Peacemakers chant)
in Utah, in 1998. In the early 2000s, Bernie Glassman, founder of Zen Peacemakers, asked Krishna Das to compose a melody for the chant "Gates of Sweet...
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Bernie Glassman (category Zen Buddhism writers)
1939 – November 4, 2018) was an American Zen Buddhist roshi and founder of the Zen Peacemakers (previously the Zen Community of New York), an organization...
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Zen (Japanese; from Chinese: Chán; in Korean: Sŏn, and Vietnamese: Thiền) is a school of Mahayana Buddhism that originated in China during the Tang dynasty...
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Thiền (redirect from Vietnamese Zen)
Thiền tông, 禪宗, IPA: [tʰîən təwŋm]) is the name for the Vietnamese school of Zen Buddhism. Thiền is the Sino-Vietnamese pronunciation of the Middle Chinese...
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Rinzai school (redirect from Rinzai Zen)
Linji Yixuan (Romaji: Rinzai Gigen, died 866 CE) is one of three sects of Zen in Japanese Buddhism, along with Sōtō and Ōbaku. The Chinese Linji school...
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Zen institutions have an elaborate system of ranks and hierarchy, which determine one's position in the institution. Within this system, novices train...
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Mu (negative) (redirect from Mu (zen))
bottom of wu, 舞 "dance". The Gateless Gate, a 13th-century collection of Zen kōan, uses the word wu or mu in its title (Wumenguan or Mumonkan 無門關) and...
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Ordinary Mind Zen School Zen Peacemakers Nichiren Buddhism Nichiren Shū Honmon Butsuryū-shū Kempon Hokke Nichiren Shōshū Western Mahāyāna Buddhism Zen in the...
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Korean Seon (redirect from Korean Zen)
Chan Buddhism, a branch of Mahāyāna Buddhism commonly known in English as Zen Buddhism. Seon is the Sino-Korean pronunciation of Chan (Chinese: 禪; pinyin:...
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Maezumi Roshi, the Zen Peacemaker Order and White Plum Asanga. Upaya offers both short-term and long-term residency for aspiring Zen practitioners. The...
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101 Zen Stories is a 1919 compilation of Zen koans including 19th and early 20th century anecdotes compiled by Nyogen Senzaki, and a translation of Shasekishū...
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Zen master is a somewhat vague English term that arose in the first half of the 20th century, sometimes used to refer to an individual who teaches Zen...
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Chan Buddhism (redirect from Chinese Zen)
periods. Zen, as we know it today, is the result of a long history, with many changes and contingent factors. Each period had different types of Zen, some...
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Zen for an overview of Zen, Chan Buddhism for the Chinese origins, and Sōtō, Rinzai and Ōbaku for the three main schools of Zen in Japan Japanese Zen...
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ISBN 9781299951082 Cleary, Thomas (1990), Transmission of Light, Zen in the Art of Enlightenment by Zen Master Keizan. Translated and introduction by Thomas Cleary...
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Global Relief, the International Network of Engaged Buddhists, the Zen Peacemakers, and the Order of Interbeing. Other engaged Buddhist groups include...
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Interbeing (category Zen)
Interbeing is a philosophical concept and contemplation practice rooted in the Zen Buddhist tradition, notably proposed by Thich Nhat Hanh. It underscores the...
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surviving Chinese version), states that Bodhidharma is not the first ancestor of Zen, but instead the second. This text instead claims that Guṇabhadra, the translator...
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Buddhism in the United States (redirect from Zen Buddhism in the United States)
Jack Kornfield, and Joanna Macy. Another engaged Buddhist group is the Zen Peacemaker Order, founded in 1996 by Bernie Glassman and Sandra Jishu Holmes. In...
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Sanbo Kyodan (redirect from Sanbo Kyodan Zen)
Organization") is a lay Zen school derived from both the Soto (Caodong) and the Rinzai (Linji) traditions. It was renamed Sanbo-Zen International in 2014...
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Village Zendo (category Zen centers in New York (state))
the Zen center took up the majority of space in O'Hara's apartment. Village Zendo is a practice center of the White Plum Asanga and Zen Peacemakers, the...
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Original face (category Zen Buddhist philosophical concepts)
The original face is a term in Zen Buddhism, pointing to one's real essence or Buddha-nature, one's 'real face'. The phrase "original face" originates...
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Satori (redirect from Zen Buddhist Enlightenment)
"comprehension; understanding". The word derives from the Japanese verb satoru. In the Zen Buddhist tradition, satori refers to a deep experience of kenshō, "seeing...
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Though Zen is said to be based on a "special transmission outside scriptures" which "did not stand upon words", the Zen-tradition has a rich doctrinal...
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School of Zen Buddhism and its Teachers". Archived from the original on April 4, 2015. "Sweeping Zen Interview with Bernie Glassmann". Zen Peacemakers International...
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is gānshǐjué/kanshiketsu (lit. 乾屎橛 "dry shit stick") wato from the Chan/Zen gōng'àn/kōan in which a monk asked "What is buddha?" and Master Yunmen/Unmon...
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