Pantheism and animism are compatible, aren't they? You just have to posit a grand Divine behind/within everything and have it manifest in a variety of forms, I don't see how that would invalidate animism.
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Replying to @talamh_3
I feel like that's leaning more toward hard pantheism which was one of the things I found frustrating with Zen. It was so spartan about dissolving illusions that you lost a lot of nuance in the process.
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Replying to @talamh_3
With Japanese Buddhism especially, as you go up the timeline the spirits get pushed out more and more, I think it's the reason a lot of Westerners get the impression Buddhism is atheist. The Tibetan tradition is more friendly to that I think. Dunno about China.
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I think there's a discontinuity gap at the beginning of the Meiji era. Also, while Zen was always the larger and more widely exported branch, let's not neglect Shingon Buddhism in Japan which has the usual vajrayana spirit work stuff.
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