Zen Buddhism
Rinzai Zen and Soto Zen A Zen monk of the Soto School prays in front of an altar at the Seiryu ji Temple in Hikone City Japan https://h7.alamy.com/comp/3/11bf3598531f4178a9f84e7834e4e576/a9j5jr.jpg “Buddhism has been practiced in Japan since about the 6th century CE. Japanese Buddhism (Nihon Bukkyō) created many new Buddhist schools, and some schools are original to Japan, and some are derived from Chinese Buddhist schools. Japanese Buddhism has had a major influence on Japanese society and culture and remains an influential aspect to this day”. (Wikipedia, Buddhism in Japan). “During the thirteenth century, three new schools of Buddhism would become firmly established in Japan: Nichiren Buddhism, Pure Land Buddhism, and Zen Buddhism”. “The seeds of Zen would fall on especially fertile ground in Japan and would reproduce the two great schools already existing in China; Caodao, which would be pronounced “Soto” in Japanese, and Linji, which would be pronounced “Rinzai”. (Bresnan ...
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