num_pages: 368
description: Explores how Soto monks between the 13th and 16th centuries developed new forms of monastic organization and Zen instructions and new applications for Zen rituals within lay life; how these innovations helped shape rural society; and how remnants of them remain in the modern Soto school, now the largest Buddhist organization in modern Japan.
language: English
title: Sōtō Zen in Medieval Japan
publisher: University of Hawaii Press