Eastern Philosophy · China & Japan
Zen Buddhism
From Chinese Chan to Japanese Zen: Bodhidharma's legend, sudden awakening, koans and zazen, Rinzai versus Soto, and how D.T. Suzuki and Shunryu Suzuki brought Zen to the West.
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Key idea
Prereqs: The Buddha; Nagarjuna. Next: Wang Yangming; Stoicism (compare). Sources: Heinrich Dumoulin, *Zen Buddhism: A History* (2 vols.); Shunryu Suzuki, *Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind* (1970); John McRae, *Seeing through Zen* (2003).Next: 1. History