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Zen Buddhism in Japan - The Importance of Poetics
Tim baron jones associated with a lot of the arts and wider culture, particularly poetry. Poets are very interested in buddhism in general, it brought into china a lot of ideas about mental life. And we find an overlap between the way poets describe poetry and certainly buddhist terminology in general. The could have the rit exactly because the funerals were meant for monks. So they were meant for an ordained person. By moving the ritual into sort of society and applying it to the people athe, thean monks reproduced the model of ordination.
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