Three of the four persons present, all foreign students in Tokyo, had been playing a game of judging popular Japanese foods by the In and Out system, an equation in which Zen philosophy was used as the modifier.

All Japanese Kamakura sects of Buddhism ( Zen, Nichiren, Jodo ) have relaxed Mahayana vinaya, and as a consequence, vegetarianism is rare.

Image: Bodhidarma. jpg | Scroll calligraphy of Bodhidharma, " Zen points directly to the human heart, see into your nature and become Buddha ", Hakuin Ekaku ( 1686 to 1769 ), Japanese

* 無, Mu ( negative ), a Japanese and Korean word important in Zen practice

Japanese styles, when concerning non-physical qualities of the combat, are strongly influenced by Zen philosophy.

Therefore Japanese Zen, Pureland and Nichiren, are led by priests ( or minister ) rather than by monks.

** Ikkyu, Japanese Zen Buddhist priest and poet ( b. 1394 )

** Ikkyu, Japanese Zen Buddhist priest and poet ( d. 1481 )

** Kokan Shiren, Japanese Rinzai Zen patriarch and celebrated Chinese poet ( b. 1278 )

** Tenshō Shūbun, Japanese painter in the Muromachi period and a Zen Buddhist monk ( d. 1463 )

* January 19 – Dogen, Japanese founder of the Soto school of Zen Buddhism

In some cases they are forest dwelling monks of the Theravada tradition and in other cases they are married clergy of a Japanese Zen lineage and may work a secular job in addition to their role in the Buddhist community.

Taisen Deshimaru was a Japanese Zen Buddhist who founded numerous zendos in France.

It is notably an important sūtra in Chinese Chán and its Japanese version, Zen.

Dōgen Zenji ( 道元禅師 ; also Dōgen Kigen 道元希玄, or Eihei Dōgen 永平道元, or Koso Joyo Daishi ) ( 19 January 1200 – 22 September 1253 ) was a Japanese Zen Buddhist teacher born in Kyōto.

Category: Japanese Zen Buddhists

Category: Japanese Zen Buddhists

From Chinese cultural influence, the Zen motif of the " gibbon grasping at the reflection of the moon in the water " became popular in Japanese art, as well, though gibbons have never occurred naturally in Japan.

In 1223, Japanese Zen master Dōgen Kigen recorded on Shōbōgenzō that he saw monks in China clean their teeth with brushes made of horse-tail hairs attached to an ox-bone handle.

New Zen: the tea-ceremony room in modern Japanese architecture.

Kaiseki: Zen Tastes in Japanese Cooking.

* 1191: Rinzai Zen Buddhism is introduced in Japan by the monk Eisai of Kamakura and becomes popular among the samurai, the leading class in Japanese society

This however is not Zen, although Japanese bow can be used in Zen-practice or kyūdō practiced by a Zen-master.

Daumal was self-taught in the Sanskrit language and translated some of the Tripitaka Buddhist canon into the French language, as well as translating the literature of the Japanese Zen scholar D. T.

* Shinshō, Japanese Buddhist monk of the Shingon sect

When he later founded the Japanese Tendai sect, esoteric practices were integrated with the larger Tendai teachings, but Tendai is not an exclusively esoteric sect.

* 1994: The Japanese religious sect Aum Shinrikyo released an impure form of sarin in Matsumoto, Nagano.

Nam-Myōhō-Renge-Kyō is called the Daimoku ( 題目: " the prayer of the Nichiren sect "), since it comprises Nam and the Japanese title of the Lotus Sutra, Myōhō-Renge-Kyō.

Today, many Japanese adhere to Nishi Honganji-ha, a conservative sect of Jodo Shinshu.

Today the largest form of Buddhism among Japanese people is the Jōdo Shinshū sect founded by Shinran.

The Japanese brand of the sect was imported in the 13th century by Dōgen Zenji, who studied the Caodong Buddhism () abroad in China.

Perhaps more significantly for the Japanese brand of this sect, Dōgen among others advocated the reinterpretation that the " Cao " represents not Caoshan, but rather " Huineng of Caoxi temple " ; zh: 曹溪慧能 ).

While recognized by the Japanese Shingon sect, Eastern Pure Land Buddhism is less popular than Western Pure Land Buddhism.

The, also known as a Dharma doll, is a hollow, round, Japanese traditional doll modeled after Bodhidharma, the founder of the Zen sect of Buddhism.

When Korea was liberated from Japanese occupation in 1945, the celibate monastics of what has become the main sect of Korean Buddhism, Jogye Order, began to take over for the married priests who ran the temples during the occupation.

This period saw the introduction of the two schools that had perhaps the greatest impact on the country: ( 1 ) the Amidist Pure Land schools, promulgated by evangelists such as Genshin and articulated by monks such as Hōnen, which emphasize salvation through faith in Amitabha and remain the largest Buddhist sect in Japan ( and throughout Asia ); and ( 2 ) the more philosophical Zen schools, promulgated by monks such as Eisai and Dogen, which emphasize liberation through the insight of meditation, which were equally rapidly adopted by the upper classes and had a profound impact on Japanese culture.

Oomoto ( 大本 Ōmoto, literally " Great Source " or " Great Origin ") also known as Oomoto-kyo ( 大本教 Ōmoto-kyō ), is a sect, often categorised as a new Japanese religion originated from Shinto ; it was founded in 1892 by Deguchi Nao ( 1836 – 1918 ).

Enryaku-ji is the headquarters of the Tendai sect and one of the most significant monasteries in Japanese history.

It was written by a Japanese monk Shogei ( 1341-1420 ), the 7th Patriarchs of the Jodo sect.

As the center of power in Japanese Buddhism shifted away from Nara to Mount Hiei and the Tendai sect, and later when the capital of Japan moved to Kamakura, Tōdai-ji's role in maintaining authority declined as well.

The is a Japanese grouping of Buddhist deities, particularly in the Shingon sect of Buddhism.

The town is known as the headquarters of the Shingon sect of Japanese Buddhism.

三論宗 ), or " Three Treatise " school, known as Sanron in Japanese Buddhism although modern scholars think them not an independent sect.

Kōya is primarily known as the world headquarters of the Kōyasan Shingon sect of Japanese Buddhism.

* Wanfu Temple ( home of Yinyuan Longqi, founder of the Japanese Ōbaku Zen sect )

It is the head temple of the Japanese Ōbaku Zen sect, named after Wanfu Temple in Fujian, China.

In 1654 after multiple requests he succeeded in persuading Yinyuan Longqi ( Ingen Ryuki ), the 33rd abbot of Wanfu Temple ( Mount Huangbo, Fujian ) to emigrate to Japan, where he founded Ōbaku, the third and final major Japanese Zen sect.