Japan
Tibetan Buddhist Encyclopedia is now 14 years old
Our Encyclopedia recently received a wonderful opportunity for a major renewal on its 14th birthday . After many years of growing our Encyclopedia had become bit slow and sometimes even decided not to answer when people knocked on the door.
A very big thank you and blessings to Dmytro Rudiy (rudiy.nl) for his great work in upgrading the server, website and all of the infrastructure and helping make TBE fast and reliable again for everyone!
We kindly ask our readers to help us cover the cost of this important upgrade and also help with the ongoing costs of keeping the Encyclopedia alive and freely available.
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OM AH HUM VAJRA GURU PADMA SIDDHI HUM 🙏🙏🙏
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Japan is a country made up of a number of islands in the northern Pacific Ocean off the Asian mainland. From the 7th century onward the country absorbed Chinese culture, including Buddhism, which became and remained for many centuries the religion of the majority of the people, although Shinto and Confucianism have always been important too. Zen, the contemplative branch of Japanese Buddhism, had a profound influence on the arts especially painting, calligraphy, gardening and flower arranging. Dogen, probably the most brilliant and creative Japanese thinker, was a Buddhist monk. Buddhism was disestablished in 1870 and since then it has struggled to make itself relevant to Japan’s dynamic consumer society. See Jianzhen and Shotoku.
A History of Japanese Buddhism, S. Hanayama, 1966.