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77 - Western Zen Grows Up and Faces the Koan of Race – Part 2
77 - Western Zen Grows Up and Faces the Koan of Race – Part 2
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Length:
34 minutes
Released:
Oct 28, 2018
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Podcast episode
Description
Second part of a two-part series: The story of my particular school, Soto Zen, in America, but even if you identify with a different type of Buddhism you may find it interesting because so many forms of Buddhism face a similar lack of racial diversity in the west – despite the diversity of our surrounding communities. Even if you’re not particularly interested in the development of western Buddhism, this is also the story of facing collective karma, and of a group questioning its collective “self-nature.”
Released:
Oct 28, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
57 - Dogen's Bendowa Part 1: What's the Big Deal about Zazen?: Zen master Dogen wrote Bendowa in 1231 to introduce his Japanese students to Soto Zen. In a sense, then, it's "Soto Zen in a nutshell." In this episode I introduce the text and the context in which it was written, and talk about how and why Dogen... by The Zen Studies Podcast