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It should be narad, houna. W Le Ovo most popular mmnmemn on Zcn
Buddhism during the 1950's. Walls and Suruki, mt rrprrvnDb~ of wditid
Japws Zen h?dhh. S h vm the pupil of Soya Sluru. P ref-, e g m
rrvimlklqmnr Zen Buddhim and to qred this new intcrpMtim of Zcn Zenhism
m the Waf. T-Lov -Ds, .... Soyen felt Ulat Zcn in Jaw hsd grmvn impmishi,
sapped of mr Ipiriaul inguiv. On Soyen's hariran. the fumm of Za raed with the
barbarians in the W e'' Hmct, Le misilonary movement which in* Suruld'r
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wridngr did ~c attempt d y m wpy Japan- Zm Buddhism inm Wa, but m present
an a lw, richer (in Soyen'r view) Zen Buddhism m the Wm, and the pmceu, &a& m
Japan."
One of Swld'r early works on Zen Buddhism is M ml of Zcn Buddhin in
'Saym and SuaJld'r akmp! m revitalize Zm MUD M be viewd as part of
the wida mnd in nineornth mNry Japan 0 modernize Jaw by doping aspem of
wsmn cul~re. -urn Qc, in his IecNre. 'Speaking on 1-ac Culm Before a
Sandinavian A* LscOM Saia. 1992.' Kvniold Yanaeishie (rrans.). in &. J-.
thc Ambiguous, and Myscp N& & Sped d-olhcr'~~nu& W& YO&
Kodrnsha Inmational: 1995), p. 17-18. wmpva this phemonmm with Gmji'r
indsana Ulat his sm learn Chine al~re, wit "Yamao spirit.' or a r m ~mibility:
ARer Le Meiji Ratorstion of 1868, 'foreign culMM came m man not Chinese
buf Eumpevl Iraming, ruiL U lhe implieations Ulat had far the mdemhtion of
Japan; but fmdamenrally L m wao no real change in the aUiN& m d laming
from thov auuide. Once again, bmueuer, the nation of "Yamam qirir w
brought mto play, as Meiji politicians uud it m unify the people's eulNlal
wnsiousnesr in lhe interrnn of cmling a modem sere. This was done, in large
pur, by smssing the absolute naN- of Japanese culture, with the empmr as iu
cenml ffeNre.