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	Japanese Buddhism - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Satyasiddhi school is considered to be an offshoot of the Sautrantika school, one of the Nikaya schools of Indian Buddhism (see early Buddhist schools).
		The Kusha school is considered to be an offshoot of the Indian Sarvastivada school.
		Literally: Three-Discourse School; a Madhyamika school which developed in China based on two discourses by Nagarjuna and one by Aryadeva; this school was transmitted to Japan in the 7th century.
	encyclopedia.maksiu.info /wiki/Japanese_Buddhism (1248 words)

	Encyclopedia: Zen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Obaku was introduced in the 17th century by Ingen, a Chinese monk.
		All Zen schools, Rinzai or Soto, are versed in Buddhist Doctrine and Buddhist Philosophy, including the Precepts, Four Noble Truths, Pratitya Samutpada, Three Signs of Being, Five Skandhas, Three Fires, Four Right Efforts, Five Hindrances, Ten Fetters, and the Bhavacakra (and its symbolic representation).
		The Kwan Um School of Zen is an umbrella organization for the various Zen centers and groups founded by the Korean Zen master Seung Sahn.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Zen (8498 words)

	Rinzai school - Wikpedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Rinzai school (臨済宗; Japanese: Rinzai-shu; Chinese: Linji Zong or Lin-chi Tsung) is one of the two major Japanese Zen sects.
		Rinzai is the Japanese branch of the Chinese Linji school, which was founded during the Tang Dynasty by Linji Yixuan.
		However, Obaku was brought to Japan several centuries later, in the 17th century, and shows significant influences from the Pure Land school, which are largely absent in Rinzai.
	www.bostoncoop.net /~tpryor/wiki/index.php?title=Rinzai_school (714 words)

	Obaku -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Around 1200 the Zen school of Buddhism developed in Japan in the form of two branches: Rinzai and Soto.
		The school arose in the 6th century in China as Ch'an, a form of Mahayana Buddhism; though introduced centuries earlier, Zen did not fully develop in...
		The Zen school of Buddhism became popular in Japan in the 12th century with the emergence of the Rinzai sect.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9331773?tocId=9331773 (585 words)

	Zen
		All Japanese Zen schools reflect the 'sudden enlightenment' Zen philosophy prevalent in China.
		Techniques of realising this innate enlightenment are many and various, and the differences between 'schools' of Zen are differences of lineage rather than differences of doctrine or practice.
		Monochrome brush paintings of empty circles, enigmatic Zen phrases and the resolute countenances of great Zen masters of the past; elegant simplicity in architecture; tranquil gardens and austere forms of ritual are characteristic of this type of Buddhism.
	philtar.ucsm.ac.uk /encyclopedia/easia/zen.html (581 words)

	E-sangha, Buddhist Forum and Buddhism Forum > General Introduction To Japanese Mahayana
		A school founded in Japan in the middle of the 17th century by the Chinese master, Yin-yuan Lung-ch'i (Jap., Ingen Ryuki), the Obaku school, is today practically without importance, having only one active monastery, the Mampuku-ji in Uji near Kyoto.
		A peculiarity of the school is that the office of abbot of the main temple and thus also the function of head of the school is hereditary.
		The fundamental sutra for this school, the Buddhavatamsaka-sutra (Jap., Kegon-kyo) was politically construed and taken as a confirmation of the ideal of the unity of the state and of the national-political coloration of Japanese Buddhism.
	www.lioncity.net /buddhism/lofiversion/index.php/t1532.html (3394 words)

	Zen
		It developed when teachers from India, the original homeland of Buddhism, founded schools in China, where it was known as ch'an (ch'an is the Wade-Giles transliteration of the Sanskrit word dhyana).
		Later schools (especially Rinzai) developed the famous koans, paradoxical "riddles" or "puzzles" designed to shock the mind out of its rationalistic rut and into a non-discriminatory awareness.
		Founder of the Soto Zen school in Japan was the famous Zen master Dogen Zenji (1200 - 1253).
	www.teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/z/ze/zen.html (721 words)

	Obaku (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		An exception is the study of Obaku school portraits.
		A careful observer of nature, Jakuchu's contact with the Obaku Zen sect of Buddhists who fled their native China in the early seventeenth century was largely responsible for his increased...
		Obaku Zen: The Emergence of the Third Sect of Zen in Tokugawa Japan
	hallencyclopedia.com /Obaku (378 words)

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		The southern school evolved under the powerful influence of Hui-neng (638-713), who is recognized as the sixth great patriarch of Zen and the founder of its modern interpretation.
		The Rinzai school was taken there in 1191 by the priest Enzai (1141-1215), and the Soto tradition arrived in 1227, taken there by Dogen (1200-53), the most revered figure in Japanese Zen.
		The Obaku school is closer to the Rinzai tradition except for its emphasis on invoking the name of Buddha.
	www.uwec.edu /greider/Chinese.Japan/Chinese.buddhism.htm (1083 words)

	Zen -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer!
		Important school of Buddhism that claims to transmit the experience of enlightenment achieved by the Buddha Gautama.
		Arising as Chan in China in the 6th century (introduced by Bodhidharma), it divided into two schools, the Southern school, which believed in sudden enlightenment, and the Northern school, which believed in gradual enlightenment.
		Methods employed vary among different schools and may emphasize the practice of zazen (in the Soto school), the use of koans (in the Rinzai school), or the continual invocation of Amida (in the Obaku school; see Amitabha).
	concise.britannica.com /ebc/article-9383298?tocId=9383298 (833 words)

	iqexpand.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		- 866) was the founder of the Linji school of Chan Buddhism in Tang China.
		Linji was born in a familly named Hsing in Ts'ao-chou (modern Heze in Shandong), which he left at a young age to study Buddhism in many places.
		The Japanese Rinzai school is a branch of the school Linji founded, as are the smaller Japanese Obaku school and the now-defunct Japanese Fuke school.
	linji.iqexpand.com (557 words)

	Adherents.com
		Controversy between it and the rival Buddhist school of logicians headed by Dignaga and Dharmakirti dominated philosophizing in the middle of the first millennium A.D., and the influence of Navya-Nyaya one thousand years later is overshadowed only by that of the Vedanta school of Advaita.
		It was originated by the Chinese master Yin-yuan Lung-ch'I, who founded the school's main monastery, Mampuku-ji, in the middle of the 17th century in Uji near Kyoto.
		The Obaku school is a subsidieary lineage of the Rinzai school; in present-day Japan it pssesses hardly any active monasteries and is thus the least influential of the three schools of Zen in Japan.
	www.adherents.com /Na/Na_481.html (2732 words)

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		There are additional differences involving how these two Buddhist schools interfaced with Japanese culture and politics, but these have more to do with the life and history of the Japanese people than with Buddhism per se.
		In China then, monks in the same temple can adhere to any school that appeals to them although of course there is almost always one dominating one in a particular temple and that the rules, activities etc. of that temple would then be based on this dominating sect.
		The Chan schools there began forming "Dharma Societies" whose purpose was to ensure the proper support of the temples and monks and the public teachings of Buddhism - sort of a church-like thing.
	www.dorje.com /netstuff/dharma/buddha06 (13542 words)

	The world's top japanese buddhism websites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Ritsu school speciallised in the Vinaya (the monastic rules in the Tripitaka).
		The Kusha school is considered to be an offshoot of the IndianSarvastivada school.
		Doctrinally the school was focused on the Lotus Sutra (Hokkekyo 法華経), but practice is based around the mantra Namu Myoho Renge Kyo (南無妙法蓮華経).
	dirs.org /wiki-article-tab.cfm/japanese_buddhism (1129 words)

	Obaku Zen of BuddhistLinks.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Obaku (Huang-po in Chinese) preserves elements of the Chinese tradition in its architecture
		The founder of the Obaku School of Zen Buddhism in Japan, Zen Master Ingen, came to Nagasaki from China in 1654
		Obaku Zen: The Emergence of the Third Sect of Zen in Tokugawa Japan by Helen Josephine Baroni
	buddhistlinks.org /Obaku.htm (1515 words)

	Zen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
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	www.icyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/z/ze/zen.html (1162 words)

	Akara
		In Japan, as in China, Calligraphy intertwines with poetry, is honoured as a fine art, a universal cultural value revealing the writer's skill and creativity, and embodying his inner character.
		Following the establishment of the Obaku (Huang-po) school of Zen at Mampukuji in 1694, a new type of Chinese-style Calligraphy was brought to Japan.
		Obaku Calligraphy was thicker, stronger, more cursive than that of previous centuries.
	www.ignca.nic.in /ex_0002f.htm (315 words)

	Adherents.com
		The Rinzai school is one of the two schools of Zen still active in Japan.
		Although the school is of Hinayana origin, it was also regarded as authoritative by the Mahayana schools of China.
		The teachings of this school were brought to Japan in 745 by Chien-chen (Ritsu school).
	www.adherents.com /Na/Na_571.html (4189 words)

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		The Japanese Obaku school of Zen is a living example of Pure Land Zen.
		The seat of his school is on Mount Hiei (Hieizan).
		Dogen and Eisai of Zen, Honen and Shinran of Pure Realm, and Nichiren of the school bearing his name all began their religious careers in Tendai.
	departments.colgate.edu /greatreligions/pages/buddhanet/mahayana325/purestat.txt (2360 words)

	Soka Gakkai Dictionary of Buddhism: Obaku school
		One of the three principal schools of Zen in Japan, the other two being the Rinzai and Soto schools.
		The name of this school derives from Mount Huang-po (Obaku), where Ingen had studied in China.
		Since Ingen was trained in the Lin-chi (Rinzai) school, the teachings of the Obaku school are identical with those of the Rinzai school except that they incorporate the Nembutsu, i.e., the invoking of the name of Amida Buddha, and other elements of the Pure Land teachings concerning rebirth in the Pure Land.
	www.sgi-usa.org /buddhism/library/sgdb/lexicon.cgi?tid=1473 (141 words)

	artnet.com: Resource Library: Ingen Ryuki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Along with his disciples MOKUAN SHOTO and SOKUHI NYOITSU, he was extolled as one of the Obaku no Sanpitsu (‘Three Brushes of Obaku’), the three principal calligraphers of the Obaku Zen school.
		He was a leading southern Chinese Buddhist master who, not long after the end of the Ming period (1368–1644), emigrated to Nagasaki where, in the early 17th century, a community of Chinese merchants had established three Chinese Buddhist temples.
		A search for his father, who had disappeared when he was five, brought him at the age of 20 to a temple on Mt Putuo (Zhoushan Archipelago, off the coast of Zhejiang Prov.), where, it is recorded, he served tea to the monks.
	www.artnet.com /library/04/0412/T041289.asp (383 words)

	Waht's Zen ?"
		The founders of the Zen in Japan were the monk Esaï/Esaï/Yôsaï (1141-1215) and Dôgen (on 1200 1253), the first heir of the school Rinzaï, the second of the school Soto.
		They favor the peace of the spirit and the powers of watchful concentration according to the practices of breath and settling of the thoughts.
		Certain schools make of zazen their iron of lance, to become bouddhas of it sat; the others laud the Zen on the march, the others more current, even in the steering wheel!
	www.bouddha.ch /english/zenchan-eng.htm (2718 words)

	Soka Gakkai Dictionary of Buddhism: Ingen
		The founder of the Obaku school of Zen in Japan.
		Born in China, he entered the Zen (Ch'an) center at Mount Huang-po (Jpn Obaku) in 1620 and studied there under Zen Master Chien-yüan.
		He established the Obaku school by incorporating the practice of Nembutsu into the teachings of the Rinzai school of Zen.
	www.sgi-usa.org /buddhism/library/sgdb/lexicon.cgi?tid=2597 (145 words)

	Adherents.com
		'five houses-seven schools'; general term for the 7 schools of Ch'an (Zen) during the T'ang period; these stemmed from 5 lineages ('houses' or 'families').
		The 7 schools are the above-mentioned 5 houses plus the 2 further schools into which the Rinzai school split after Shi-shuang Ch'u-yuan.
		In the first half of the 13th century, the tradition of the Soto school was brought to Japan from China by the Japanese master Dogen Zenji; there, Soto Zen, along with Rinzai, is one of the two principal transmission lineages of Zen still active today.
	www.adherents.com /Na/Na_611.html (2043 words)

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