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View submission: Is zazen truly Zen?
Not really. "Critical Buddhism" was a movement, a few decades ago in Japan, led by a couple of professors who made some very narrow critiques of Zen Buddhism, primarily on the ground that it turned "Buddha Nature" into a Great Self/Atman in ways that early Buddhism rejected. Basically, the Zen folks responded that they are not doing so, and the debate pretty much died out long ago. You can read more here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical%5C_Buddhism[1][2]
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical%5C_Buddhism
2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_Buddhism
and for more detail, this review and the "Pruning the Bodhi Tree" book ...
https://www.princeton.edu/%5C~jstone/Review%20essays%20and%20field%20overviews/Some%20Reflections%20on%20Critical%20Buddhism%20(1999).pdf[3][4]
Comment by KokemushitaShourin at 26/01/2025 at 08:31 UTC
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They often cite Pruning the Bodhi Tree