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25 unusual facts about ZEN


Akio Yasuraoka

The works of Yasuraoka are published by the Japan Federation of Composers, Zen-On Music, Ongaku-no-tomo Sha and Tokyo Academia Music.

Blue Cliff College

The name of the college is taken from an ancient Zen text, the Blue Cliff Records, containing dialogues between Zen masters and their students.

Chacala

A Zen Buddhist with a strong commitment to helping the less-fortunate, the word of del Valle's work soon spread, and Chacala started attracting others with similar ideals, along with 'eco-tourists' looking for a tranquil, unspoiled and little-visited beach-town 'off the beaten path'.

Chen Wei-zen

Chen did his bachelor degree in urban planning from the National Cheng Kung University.

Chicago Review

The Chicago Review also played a significant role in introducing Zen to the American public.

Cruceta del Vigía

Its purpose is to encourage spiritual peace and harmony by the means of nature and Zen music.

First North Americans

To touch the One is a state of Zen-like self-transcendence where a Dreamer is at his or her most Powerful.

Haiga

Some haiga paintings, such as those by Morikawa Kyoriku, reflect the formal training of the artists, while others, like those by Nakahara Nantenbō, reflect the artist's background in Zen.

Hayakawa Senkichirō

Hayakawa, a prominent lay Buddhist, and student of the Zen abbot of Engaku-ji, Suzuki Daisetsu, also founded the Kochokan, a boarding house for samurai-descended students from Ishikawa Prefecture in Tokyo.

Ike no Taiga

At age six, he began receiving instruction in calligraphy and religious matters at the Manpuku-ji Zen temple.

Jade Buddha Temple

As with many modern Chinese Buddhist temples, the current temple draws from both the Pure Land and Chan traditions of Mahayana Buddhism.

Jurōjin

He was introduced into the Japanese art tradition by Zen Buddhist painters, and depictions of Jurōjin span from the Muromachi period (1337 – 1573) through the Edo period (1603 – 1868).

Lotus Sutra

Dogen, the 13th-century Japanese founder of Sōtō Zen Buddhism, used the Lotus Sūtra often in his writings.

Nagasawa Rosetsu

Rosetsu, his children, and his pupil are buried in a Kyoto cemetery belonging to the Pure Land Sect, although Rosetsu was a lay student of Zen.

Norman MacCaig

He described his own religious beliefs as 'Zen Calvinism', a comment typical of his half-humorous, half-serious approach to life.

Samurai Jack: The Shadow of Aku

The player can also fill Jack's "Zen meter", which allows him to enter a special slow-motion attack mode called "Sakai mode", among other things.

Samurai Warrior: The Battles of Usagi Yojimbo

The game is a sideways-scrolling adventure, where Miyamoto Usagi has to defeat opponents in sword fights, and also have encounters with other characters (also anthropomorphic animals), for example priests, who usually carry a cane and utter Zen Buddhist koans, such as "if you see the Buddha on the path, kill him".

Shigaraki ware storage jar

However, their rough simplicity captured the attention of Zen practitioners, and they began to use them as water jars during the Japanese tea ceremony beginning in the sixteenth century.

Shoma Morita

Morita Masatake (1874-1938), also read as Morita Shoma (1874 - 1938 (森田 正馬), was a contemporary of Sigmund Freud and the founder of Morita Therapy, a branch of clinical psychology strongly influenced by Zen Buddhism.

The Order of Christ Sophia

The student-teacher relationship is one of the defining characteristics of OCS as it is in other major mystical practices, including Sufism and Zen.

Tim Bayliss

In Season 7, having been shot at the end of Season 6, he became more interested in the matter and converted to Zen Buddhism.

Zen

Prime figures are the fifth patriarch Daman Hongren (601–674), his dharma-heir Yuquan Shenxiu (606?-706), the sixth patriarch Huineng (638–713), antagonist of the quintessential Platform Sutra, and Shenhui (670-762), whose propaganda elevated Huineng to the status of sixth patriarch.

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, by the time of the Fifth Patriarch Hongren (601–674), the Zen school became established as a separate school of Buddhism.

After being chosen by Hongren, the fifth patriarch, Huineng had to flee by night to Nanhua Temple in the south to avoid the wrath of Hongren's jealous senior disciples.

Zenbook

A pattern of concentric circles on the lids is said to represent ripples in water and represent the "zen philosophy" that designers wanted to portray when creating the laptops.


Baron Zen

His recording career as Baron Zen started back in 1988, collected in At the Mall.

Buddhism and evolution

Albert Low, a Zen master and author of The Origin of Human Nature: A Zen Buddhist Looks at Evolution, (2008) opposes neo-Darwinism and the selfish gene as he claims they are materialistic.

Bukichi Miki

This was a very witty statement using the story of the Buddhist monk Daruma Daishi who faced a wall in China's Shaolin Monastery and after doing zen meditation for nine years, achieved enlightenment.

Charles Rollier

He took part to a great number of exhibitions (in Switzerland, France, Italy, Germany, England, Denmark and Japan) and showed a growing interest in various religious and philosophical traditions, like Zen, Buddhism, Sufism, Shaktism, Hölderlin's romantic mystism, the Christian mystics, Neoplatonism, and in the artistic traditions from India and China (Lobue 1985; 1985).

Claude Thomas

Claude AnShin Thomas (born 1947), American Zen Buddhist monk and Vietnam War veteran

Fuke

Fuke, known as Puhua in Chinese, the legendary precursor to the eponymous Fuke Zen school of Buddhism in Japan

Gregg Chillin

Chillin has appeared in many television shows such as BBC One's Inside Men, Waking the Dead and Zen playing the character of Pepe Spadola alongside Rufus Sewell.

Hōkoku-ji

Known posthumously by his Buddhist name Butsujo Zenji, Eko was a member of the Five Mountains Zen literary school.

Jan van Krieken van Huessen

Time, Alchemy and Zen are important themes converging in the choice for a glacial erratic (stone) in the pond of his garden as the source of inspiration for his work.

Janwillem van de Wetering

Van de Wetering studied Zen under the guidance of Oda Sessō, together with Walter Nowick, at Daitoku-ji.

Japanese calligraphy

However, with the rise of the Rinzai school of Zen Buddhism a less technical style appeared, representative of Zen attitudes and exemplified in the works of Musō Soseki who wrote in a refined sosho style, or Shūhō Myōcho (1282–1337; better known as Daito Kokushi), the founder of Daitoku-ji in Kyoto, who had not traveled to China to study.

Jeff Mattson

Jeff was asked to audition for Phil Lesh & Friends in the fall of 1999 and in October 1999, Jeff and then Zen Trickster keyboard player, Rob Barraco, played three shows with Phil Lesh and Friends at the Warfield Theater in San Francisco.

Jeff Yang

Yang is also known for his books, including Once Upon a Time in China: A Guide to the Cinemas of Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China, I Am Jackie Chan: My Life in Action (with Jackie Chan), Eastern Standard Time: A Guide to Asian Influence in American Culture, from Astro Boy to Zen Buddhism, and Secret Identities: The Asian American Superhero Anthology.

Jenjarom

Jenjarom has a significant Chinese (Hokkien) population, and the village is the site of the Dong Zen Fo Guang Shan Buddhist Temple and Institute in Sungai Jarom.

John Blofeld

Blofeld became a pupil of Hsu Yun but actually received training in Chan (Zen) meditation from Hsu Yun's pupils at a monastery near Kunming, Yunnan.

Kason Sugioka

Sugioka received his teaching certificate from the Osaka Kyoiku University, then studied literature and aesthetics at Kyoto University and afterwards learned the art of zen from Shin'ichi Hisamatsu.

Katie Martin

In 2008, Martin's work as a wedding planner was featured on the Style Network's show Whose Wedding Is It Anyway? In the episode "Zen Spin," a couple hired Martin to plan two wedding receptions for them: one in Chinese tradition, the other with an Italian flavor.

Kato-chan Ken-chan Gokigen TV

Starring Ken Shimura and Cha Kato, former members of the group The Drifters from Hachiji Dayo! Zen'in Shugo, the irreverent and satirical program would poke fun at contemporary society in Japan, and would feature comedy vignettes similar to those found on The Benny Hill Show or The Carol Burnett Show.

Kazuo Okamatsu

He was known in the 1980s for his works on the poet and Zen master Ikkyū.

Keisaku

In Zen Buddhism, the keisaku (Japanese: 警策, Chinese: 香板, xiāng bǎn; kyōsaku in the Soto school) is a flat wooden stick or slat used during periods of meditation to remedy sleepiness or lapses of concentration.

Luiz Gushiken

A former Buddhist, Rosicrucian and Umbandist, he also adhered to Cabala and Zen-Buddhist beliefs, even maintaining close contact with the Bahá'í Faith throughout his life (of which members of his family have been followers for many years).

Mark L. Prophet

a high priest at the Temple of the Solar Logos in Atlantis; Noah, Ikhnaton, Aesop, Mark the Evangelist, Origen, Sir Launcelot; Bodhidharma, founder of Zen Buddhism; Clovis I, first King of France; Saladin, St. Bonaventure, Louis XIV, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; and Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia.

Max Hell Frog Warrior

This film is considered a Zen Film in that it was created in the distinct style of filmmaking formulated by Scott Shaw known as Zen Filmmaking.

Mel Schwartz

Dr. David Loy, an expert on Japanese Zen Buddhism, has praised Mel for his contributions to the field of contemporary psychotherapy and non-duality, including his insights on the topic of emotional masking.

Pháp Hiền

Pháp Hiền studied under Quán Duyên, a Zen master at chùa Quán Vân, or Phap-van Temple, then under the Indian monk Vinītaruci.

Rohit Jivanlal Parikh

I would suggest that people pay more attention to Zeno’s paradoxes, to McTaggart's paper on Time, and perhaps also to the writings of the thirteenth-century Zen teacher Dogen Zenji in his Genjōkōan.

Samuel L. Lewis

In 1926 he collaborated with Nyogen Senzaki, a Rinzai Zen Buddhist monk, in opening the first official Zen meditation hall (zendo) in San Francisco.

Sante Poromaa

He was born in 1958 in Kiruna, Sweden, and commenced his Zen training in the early eighties, as a student of Roshi Philip Kapleau.

Sesshū Tōyō

Shūbun's style, like that of most Japanese Zen painters, was inspired by Chinese Song Dynasty painters such as Ma Yuan, Xia Gui, Guo Xi, and others.

Shaolin Kung Fu

The 1970s television series Kung Fu starred David Carradine as Kwai Chang Caine, a Shaolin monk on the run in the Wild West whose Zen (Ch'an) training is tested along his journey.

Shenhui

Rather, like his teacher Hongren, he had many disciples who went on to teach Zen.

Shodo Harada

In September 1989, Harada came to the United States to provide instruction for students and in 1995 founded One Drop Zendo (or, Tahoma One Drop Zen Monastery) on Whidbey Island in Island County, Washington, where the practice mirrors the practices found at Sogen-ji.

Sony NW-A810

Crave, the CNET gadget blog, named the NW-A810 series as one of the MP3 players that shaped year 2007, with another three, the Zune 80, iPod touch, and the ZEN.

Southern Dragon Kung Fu

1900, a Chan (Zen) master named Daai Yuk taught Southern Dragon style to Lam Yiu Gwai, who in turn passed the art on to the many students of his schools in Guangzhou.

Steven Heine

Editor, Zen and the Modern World: A Third Sequel to Zen and Western Thought, by Masao Abe (University of Hawaii Press, 2003, ISBN 978-0-8248-2665-9)

Furthermore, he is an innovative interpreter of Zen in both a traditional and modern context and has translated and edited works by Masao Abe, the eminent modern Japanese thinker.

Editor, Zen and Comparative Studies: Part Two of a Two-Volume Sequel to Zen and Western Thought, by Masao Abe (University of Hawaii Press, 1997, ISBN 978-0-8248-1832-6)

The Japanese Garden

As one first enters the Garden, one walks through a dry Zen meditation garden (Karesansui) containing a large grass-covered mound, representing Tortoise Island, a symbol of longevity, and a Three Buddhas arrangement of stones.

Toyota Camry Solara

Interior changes include Optitron gauges, blue backlighting in the rest of the car's controls, a new steering wheel design that is somewhat similar to the recently revised Camry SE's steering wheel, revised shifter, MP3 and WMA CD playback capability, external audio device (e.g. iPod, Zen, cassette) auxiliary port connectivity, Bluetooth connectivity, and voice-activated navigation on the SLE V6 models.

Ulfert Wilke

He received the Guggenheim Fellowship twice (in 1959 and 1960), which he used to travel to work and study first in Munich and Rome, and later Kyoto, Japan where he lived in monastery and studied Japanese Zen calligraphy under the monks.

White Collar Zen

White Collar Zen is a project by Steven Heine, who is primarily known for his research on medieval Japanese religion and society.

Xinxin Ming

From the Chan/Zen point of view, Buddha and Mind are one (即心即佛) (see the Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch (六祖壇經)), as expressed in Mazu's famous dictum "Mind is Buddha".

Zen in the Art of Archery

Indeed, more than 200 books now have similar titles, including Robert Pirsig's 1974 widely popular book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, and Ray Bradbury's Zen in the Art of Writing, as well as "Zen and the Art of Poker,", "Zen and the Art of Knitting", and Crazy Legs Conti: Zen and the Art of Competitive Eating, and so on.

Zen of Screaming

The Zen of Screaming is an instructional DVD by Melissa Cross, a vocal coach whose speciality is "unclean" vocal techniques such as growled or screamed found in extreme metal and other styles of music.

Zhengding County

During the Tang Dynasty, it became the site where the monk Linji Yixuan founded the Linji School, one of the five schools of Chinese Chan Buddhism.