Do the scholastic sects say that chan practice is something separate from themselves?
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Dogen famously said that there are no Buddhist schools, and the idea there is [this or that Buddhist school] is the creation of demons, etc. [Dogen's Eihei Koroku, discourse 7.491, reads:]
> The Buddha Dharma fundamentally has no outer name or form. Later
> people falsely established many random names. Althogh facing the wall
> at Shaolin resembled [dhyana], do not call it Zen School and misguide
> sentient beings.
First, is Dogen saying that Zen [which is misguiding] is nothing separate from scholastic "sects", and if so, is he right?
Second, what do the more scholarly schools - whether Theravada, Mahayana or Vajrayana - say about Zen?
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Mar 4, 2016, 11:00 AM
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