Re: Salinger and Buddhism as promised

Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Sun, 28 Jun 1998 16:23:50 +1000

>.  Look at the Zen sects of Japan:  there are as
> many, if not more, rules than in any Western monastic order.  The Zen
> masters stress that the *only* way to reach enlightenment is via those
> structures

Which sects? I always understood that the Zen strain of Buddhism developed
in overt rebellion to the other three strains which had lost their original
purpose to ceremony, rules, and structures.

Camille 
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