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Zen Is Iconoclastic
For the followers of Bodhidharma, however, this conception of Buddha seemed too crude to be accepted unhesitatingly and the doctrine too much irrelevant with and uncongenial to actual life. Since Zen denounced, as we have seen in the previous chapt...
Zen Is Not Nihilistic
Zen judged from ancient Zen masters' aphorisms may seem, at the first sight, to be idealistic in an extreme form, as they say: "Mind is Buddha" or, "Buddha is Mind," or, "There is nothing outside mind," or, "Three worlds are of but one mind." And i...
Zen Under The Toku-gana Shogunate
Peace was at last restored by Iye-yasu, the founder of the Toku-gana Shogunate (1603-1867). During this period the Shogunate gave countenance to Buddhism on one hand, acknowledging it as the state religion, bestowing rich property to large monaster...
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Zen Is Iconoclastic
The Sermon Of The Inanimate
Bodhidharma's Disciples And The Transmission Of The Law
Zen And Nirvana
Decline Of Zen
Buddha Is Unnamable
The Honest Poverty Of The Zen Monk And The Samurai
The Fifth And The Sixth Patriarchs
Least Viewed
The World Is In The Making
The Courage And The Composure Of Mind Of The Zen Monk And Of The Samurai
The Characteristics Of Do-gen The Founder Of The Japanese So To Sect
Each Smile A Hymn Each Kindly Word A Prayer
An Illusion Concerning Appearance And Reality
Where Then Does The Error Lie?
Idealistic Scepticism Concerning Objective Reality
Idealistic Scepticism Concerning Religion And Morality