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92 Jason M. Wirth on Zen, the Kyoto School, and Whether Nietzsche is a Buddha

The Imperfect Buddha Podcast

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Is Critical Buddhism a Movement?

Critical buddhism is an intellectual movement that took place around the mid 19 eighties in primarily soto zen circles. They were both academics and ordained pre sts toke figures, haka maya, noriaki and matsu mato shiro. So they do take a critical approach, which i think is a product of the time too,. And shows that they were also engaging with western thinkers as well. But i find quite fundamentalist in many ways. It's not you can ignore, if you take seriously a contemporary japanese thought. I've certainly learned some things from them. We're already in the second tourn because we are asking ourselves, what is this strange

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