The Zen tradition is maintained and transferred by a high degree of institutionalisation, despite the emphasis on individual experience and the iconoclastic...
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Rinzai school (redirect from Rinzai Zen)
often well educated and skilled, were employed by the shōgun for the governing of state affairs. Not all Rinzai Zen organisations were under such strict...
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The Flower Sermon is a story of the origin of Zen Buddhism in which Gautama Buddha transmits direct prajñā (wisdom) to the disciple Mahākāśyapa. In the...
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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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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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edition of Zen at War was followed by Zen War Stories, which further explores the intimate relationship between Japanese institutional Buddhism and militarism...
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is described in Chan and Zen Buddhism encounter-stories, to expose the enlightened state (Japanese: satori) of the Zen-master, and/or to induce initial...
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Sanbo Kyodan (redirect from Sanbo Kyodan Zen)
1868. Starting in this period, various Zen institutions began to give permission to lay followers to practice Zen. The leaders of the Sanbo Kyodan were...
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Thiền (redirect from Vietnamese Zen)
(Vietnamese: Thiền tông, 禪宗, IPA: [tʰîən təwŋm]) is the Vietnamese version of Zen Buddhism. Thiền is the Sino-Vietnamese pronunciation of the Middle Chinese...
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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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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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Joko Beck (category Zen Buddhism writers)
15, 2011) was an American Zen teacher and the author of the books Everyday Zen: Love and Work and Nothing Special: Living Zen. Born in New Jersey, Beck...
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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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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 and textual...
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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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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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Martial Arts 功夫) common in the teachings of Chan Buddhism, Korean Seon and Rinzai Zen. Hua Tou can be translated as 'word head', 'head of speech' or 'point...
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An Introduction to Zen Buddhism is a 1934 book about Zen Buddhism by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki. First published in Kyoto by the Eastern Buddhist Society...
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individual who teaches Zen Buddhist meditation and practices, usually implying longtime study and subsequent authorization to teach and transmit the tradition...
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The Soto Zen Buddhist Association was formed in 1996 by American and Japanese Zen teachers to draw together the various autonomous lineages of the North...
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Heart Sutra (section Popularity and stature)
Buddhism and Zen in Vietnam in relation to the development of Buddhism in Asia. Charles E.Tuttle & Co. ISBN 978-0-8048-1144-6. Waddell, Norman (1996). Zen Words...
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Bodhidharma (category Articles having different image on Wikidata and Wikipedia)
Light: Zen Master's Keizan's Denkoroku, Boston: Wisdom Publications Diener, Michael S.; friends (1991), The Shambhala Dictionary of Buddhism and Zen, Boston:...
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The Gateless Barrier (category Zen koan collections)
Gateless Gate, is a collection of 48 Chan (Zen) koans compiled in the early 13th century by the Chinese Zen master Wumen Huikai (無門慧開; Japanese: Mumon...
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Eisai (category Zen Buddhist priests)
Rinzai school, the Japanese line of the Linji school of Zen Buddhism. In 1191, he introduced this Zen approach to Japan, following his trip to China from...
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an 8th century Tang dynasty Chan Buddhism (Zen) text authored by Yongjia Xuanjue, a student of Huineng, and author of the Song of Enlightenment, the only...
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