Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dark Zen
It is apparently important enough that E-sangha, a very large online Buddhist forum, makes a point to http://www.lioncity.net/buddhism/index.php?act=announce&f=8&id=13 ban linking to Dark Zen websites from the forum. http://www.lioncity.net/buddhism/index.php?showtopic=18748 Here is a general discussion of Dark Zen on that forum, and http://www.lioncity.net/buddhism/index.php?showtopic=30262&st=0 here it is compared, perhaps overdramatically, to Aum Shinrikyo. Further indication of its importance is that Beliefnet considers Dark Zen notable enough to provide its followers their own http://www.beliefnet.com/boards/discussion_list.asp?boardID=84778 subforum there. It has at least http://www.amazon.com/Authorized-Dark-Meditation-Manual-Buddhism/dp/0971254125 one book devoted to it, and for whatever reason unbeknownst to me, it elicits rage from its detractors (read the reviews on amazon). The Dark Zen Meditation Manual has been http://www.zen-martialarts.org/Dharma/zbohy/Literature/essays/mzs/zenmarbreathsutta.html excerpted, at http://www.zatma.org/ The Zen Buddhist Order of Hsu Yun, and this instance appears to satisfy criterion 3 of , "''The content is distributed via a site which is both well known and independent of the creators, either through an online newspaper or magazine, an online publisher, or an online broadcaster.''" &mdash;&nbsp
— User:Coelacan, 21:02, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:WEB (Wikipedia:Notability)