By Richard Bryan McDaniel
Zen Masters of Japan is the second one publication in a sequence that lines Zen's profoundly historical trip because it unfold eastward from China and Japan, towards the USA. Following Zen Masters of China, this e-book concentrates on Zen's major passage via Japan. extra in particular, it describes the lineage of the nice academics, the Pioneers who got down to enlighten an island prepared for an internal transformation in response to compassionate awareness.
While the present Buddhist institution in Japan met early Zen pioneers like Dogen and Eisai with fervent resistance, Zen Buddhism eventually perservered and endured to develop into additional remodeled in its passage via Japan. the japanese tradition and jap Buddhism practices extra deepened and reinforced Zen education via combining it with quite a few esoteric contemplative arts the humanities of poetry, the tea rite, calligraphy, and archery. Zen Masters of Japan chronicles this trip, and indicates how the recent practices quickly won in reputation between all walks of existence from the lowly peasant, supplying a desire of reincarnation and a greater existence; to the Samurai warrior because of its informal method of loss of life; to the ruling periods, hard the intelligentsia due to its scholarly roots. a set of Zen tales, meditation, and their knowledge, Zen Masters of Japan additionally explores the illusive kingdom of 'No Mind' accomplished in Japan that's so basic to Zen practices this present day.
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Although there had been Japanese who had studied Zen before him, Eisai is identified as the individual to establish Zen, in its Rinzai form, on the islands, just as Bodhidharma was acknowledged to have brought the meditation school to China. As with Bodhidharma, Eisai is also credited with introducing tea to a new land. Legend has it that Bodhidharma had been so angered after falling asleep during meditation one day that he cut off his eyelids, which fell to the earth and there, supposedly, grew to become the first tea plants.
Observing it, he thought about his mother’s words and was struck by the impermanence of all things. An uncle adopted Dogen and took charge of his education. It was the uncle’s intention that the boy would be his heir and serve in the imperial court. But at the age of thirteen, young Dogen ran away from the court to a member of his mother’s family who was a student of Buddhism and magic. With the aid of this relative, Dogen was received as a novice at Enryakuji, the Tendai Monastery on Mount Hiei.
On Mount Tientai, he sought out Zen Master Kian Esho [Xuan Huai-chang] who belonged to the Rinzai [Ch: Linji] “House” of Zen. Zen was not a homogeneous tradition in China. There were Five Houses each of which traced its lineage back to a particular group of teachers. The Rinzai House also produced two offshoots, which resulted in a total of Seven Schools. When Eisai visited China, the two strongest schools were the Rinzai and the Soto [Ch: Caodong]. While the goal of both of these is to guide practitioners to awakening, their approaches differ both in custom and focus.
