The Other Side of Zen
Subtitle: A Social History of Soto Zen Buddhism in Tokugawa Japan
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: November 8, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780691119281
Subjects: Zen Buddhism; Religion - World Religions; Eastern - Zen; Religion; Såotåoshåu; Social aspects; Buddhism - History; Buddhism - Zen; Anthropology; Asian and Asian American Studies; Religion / Zen Buddhism; Buddhism - Rituals & Practice; Sotoshu
First sentence: UNTIL THE 1980s, scholars of Japanese Zen Buddhism in the West almost always focused on three major approaches to Zen.