Are any of you personally invested in Zen Buddhism? I was a zenhead from age 17 to 22. For me, it is my childhood religion
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Replying to @jaspergregory
Not personally, other than reading a few books. Did you move on to something else, or just drop the practice, or what?
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Replying to @_awbery_
I first dropped the practice, but I still believed the myths, until I became familiar with the academic histories
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but, funnily, the real stories are more interesting than the scriptural histories
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Replying to @jaspergregory
Interesting, & true: I know more about real history of other Buddhisms (Theravada/Tibetan) than Zen….
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Replying to @_awbery_
The history of Chan-Zen in China is seriously understudied, in English, at least
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Replying to @jaspergregory
I thought as much, from talking with
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but know of no detailed investigation into that.
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This is a breakthrough work on that: http://amzn.to/2kYaZu5
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Oh, he’s the Dunhuang manuscripts guy at the British library - I loved his blog. Stopped following bc time.
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