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Zen

In Our Time: Philosophy

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Zen in Japan

Zen was already known in japan as part of the practices of one of the largest schools of buddhism called tenda. By the end of the twelfth century, some tendi monks had tried to establish the practice of zen as an independent practice. What we find around this period is that our movements ar a focus on one specific practice and embrace that as the best way to achieve enlightenment or liberation. So it was a particular practice that the japanese zen picked on.

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