Japanese Zen | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-05-11

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00:00:30 1 History
00:00:39 1.1 Chinese origins
00:01:34 1.2 Kamakura (1185–1333)
00:03:31 1.3 Muromachi (or Ashikaga) (1336–1573)
00:03:53 1.3.1 Gozan-system
00:04:29 1.3.2 Rinka-monasteries
00:05:11 1.4 Azuchi-Momoyama (1573–1600) and Edo (or Tokugawa) (1600–1868)
00:07:13 1.5 Meiji Restoration (1868–1912) and Imperial expansionism (1912–1945)
00:10:07 1.6 Criticisms of post-WWII Zen
00:11:01 2 Teachings
00:11:10 2.1 Buddha-nature and sunyata
00:11:55 2.2 Kensho: seeing one's true nature
00:12:30 3 Zen meditation
00:14:06 4 Contemporary Zen organizations
00:14:40 4.1 Sōtō
00:15:07 4.2 Rinzai
00:15:49 4.3 Obaku
00:16:04 4.4 Sanbo Kyodan
00:16:39 4.5 FAS Society
00:17:05 5 Zen in the Western world
00:17:15 5.1 Early influences
00:18:11 5.2 D.T. Suzuki
00:19:27 5.3 Beat Zen
00:20:34 5.4 Christian Zen
00:22:25 5.5 Zen and the art of...
00:23:40 5.6 Art
00:24:05 6 Western Zen lineages derived from Japan
00:24:26 6.1 USA
00:24:35 6.1.1 Sanbo Kyodan
00:25:56 6.1.2 Soto
00:27:37 6.1.3 Rinzai
00:28:38 6.2 United Kingdom
00:29:47 7 See also



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See also 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 JapanZen is the Japanese variant of Chan Buddhism, a Mahayana school that strongly emphasizes dhyana, the meditative training of awareness and equanimity. This practice, according to Zen proponents, gives insight into one's true nature, or the emptiness of inherent existence, which opens the way to a liberated way of living.