Sep 25, 2018
Kōan 26: How Grass and Trees Become Enlightened
Kōan 26: How Grass and Trees Become Enlightened
Note: Tendai (天台宗 Tendai-shū) is a Mahayana Buddhist school established in Japan in the year 806 by a monk named Saicho also known as Dengyō Daishi (伝教大師, “The Pure Land School”).
During the Kamakura period, Shinkan studied Tendai six years and then studied Zen seven years; then he went to China and contemplated Zen for thirteen years more.
When he returned to Japan many desired to interview him…
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