How is zen Buddhism different from Indian Buddhism?
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Zen is to popular Buddhism as Christian mysticism is to popular Christianity, Sufism to popular Islam, or Advaita to popular Hinduism.
The issue is not the differences between the popular religions and their non-dual schools. The issue is the reasons why the non-dual schools came on the stage.
The popular religions are more cultural and social traditions than pylons for practical spirituality. Popular religions are covering huge range of rituals starting from food customs, through family and life affairs convictions to funeral rituals of follower/worshipers... Naturally, these aspects of lives, cultures and civilizations are important (not touching here any negative aspects of popular religions…).
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Zen Buddhism is a mixture of IndianMahayana Buddhism and Taoism. It began in China, spread to Korea and Japan, and became very popular in the West from the mid 20th century. The essence of Zen is attempting to understand the meaning of life directly, without being misled by logical thought or language
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