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I'd like to clarify something. I've known this for some time but recently got much more solid confirmation. What Zen Buddhism claims is "zazen" as though it
... What I am referring to is the fact that Vipassana has been taken out of its Theravadin context and used by psychotherapists as a kind of secular therapy
The image of the Ceremony in the Air which is on the calligraphic Omandala predates Nichiren. You can even find Chinese versions carved in stone in some Asian
I guess you could - esp. those Nichiren Buddhists who place more emphasis on the Eternal Shakyamuni Buddha than on the more impersonal (or transpersonal)