Browsing through the wiki and posts on this page, I see many references to Chinese masters (let's say pre 1200), and very few references (in fact, some rejection of) to the well known Japanese luminaries such as Dogen, Rinzai, and their descendants. In my limited experience, it seems as though the Japanese lineages have stolen the show as far as what is most commonly considered to be "zen", at least in America. The wiki as well as suggestions here have opened my eyes to a whole reading list of older texts that I had never heard of before. Are there specific deviations or mistakes of note that happened in history which have caused a divide here? Or are their specific practices/beliefs held by Rinzai and/or Soto Schools which zen people reject?
If there is literature or specific posts here that address this, I'd love to see them.
Submitted May 23, 2019 at 04:32AM by brahmmyboy http://bit.ly/2X0mKCn
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