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[akujunkan]

Is of

the Butsuden of Myoshinji, which is the head temple of the Myoshin school of Rinzai Zen Buddhism. That's Shakamuni Buddha you see chilling there in the background.

(Although, should I really go back to posting pictures of SRS CULTURE? Thus far, you guys seemed to have liked the scrubby the best^^)



That will be all.

Comments

[wombatdeamor.livejournal.com]

These are very important distinctions that I want to look into. I want to try to get a feel for the different truths. I'm not going to join a temple or anything, just trying to make my life better. Would you say Zen is easier to find books on? I'm probably putting the cart before the horse in that we're just about to start studying it and I don't have enough information to make a cogent decision.

[akujunkan.livejournal.com]

Hm. I'd say Japanese Zen and Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism would be equally represented. (Although you have to be careful, because crap trying to pass itself off as Zen/Vajrayana is even more widely represented.)

Pure Land Buddhism (and its variants) are probably the most difficult to find books on, although I know there's an active Nichiren temple in Chicago somewhere.