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Is Zen Buddhism?
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"Is Zen Buddhism?
By David R. Loy
The Eastern Buddhist
Vol. 28, No. 2 (Autumn 1995)
pp. 273-286
p.
273
Is Zen Buddhism?
The Eastern Buddhist, Vol. 28, No. 2 (Autumn 1995)
It may be considered strange that Zen has it
any way been affiliated with the spirit of the military classes of Japan.
Whatever form Buddhism takes in the various countries where it flourishes,
it is a religion of compassion, and in its varied history it has never been
found engaged in warlike activities. How is it, then, that Zen has come to
activate the fighting spirit of the Japanese warrior?
-- D. T. Suzuki [1]
Suzuki's question remains the most problematic
one for understanding the place of Zen within Buddhism and comparative religion
generally. In his provocative study Zen and the Way of the Sword: Arming the
Samurai Psyche, [2] Winston L. King raises this issue on the first page and
reminds us that such perversions of moral and religious ideals are not found
only in Japan. We need only consider "how the simple otherworldly ethic
of Jesus, the carpenter of Nazareth, to love those who hate us and turn the
other cheek to those who strike us could have been transformed into the Crusaders"
gospel of killing infidel Saracens or into a church of bitterly feuding and
even warring sects. The answers to all such questions are always complex and
unsatisfactory. "This response too, for valid as it is it overlooks the
most important issue: the difference between our understanding of the Crusader,
who would now be considered benighted by all but the most fundamentalist Christians,
and the reputation of the Zen samurai spirit among contemporary Japanese and
those likely to read this article. The problem, then, is not only how this perver"
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