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Ten Zen - The Most Important Contribution of Ten to Japan
Zen like all other forms of buddism was a monastic tradition, at least when it started. Tenzen monasteries already had funerary rites for the abbot and for a general common monks. And that could be applied to lay people, but a in a very ten fashion, bya ordained the dead so when you died, you got a new name. You got exactly te yo sho entered into you became a monk, exactly.