Ich habe folgenden interessanten Text gefunden: Theravada in Japan
During the medieval period,Theravada was often misunderstood as simply a “wrong dharma” and one of the twelve vows of
Yakushi Nyorai was to lead all “Hinayanists” to Mahayana. The Tipitaka was not published in
Japan until 1669, centuries after the formative Kamakura period. This publication was done by
True Pure Land priests
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Ich finde das interessant, weil ich angenommen hatte, dass der Tipitaka in Japan erst durch die westliche Buddhismuskunde bekannt wurde. Mich überrascht auch die Verbindung zwischen "Reinem Land" und Thervada ein wenig.
There was an extended inquiry into Theravada by Japanese Buddhist reformers during the Meiji period, but it ended up having more of an impact on the United States than on Japan. The famous Zen teacher Sōen Shaku ( 釈宗演 ) made an often overlooked trip to Sri Lanka from the years 1887 to 1890. During his studies there, he was ordained as a Theravada monk with the name Pannaketu. His disciple Kōnen Shaku ( 釈興然 1849–1924) also went to Sri Lanka and received the Buddhist name Gunaratana. Kōnen was more interested than Sōen in bringing Theravada to Japan, and he founded the Shakuson Shōfu Kai ( 釈尊正風会 ), or “Shakyamuni True Way Society”, in Japan. Kōnen and Sōen both met the Sri Lankan Maha Bodhi Society founder Anagarika Dhammapala in 1893; Dhammapala also visited Japan in 1889, 1902, and 1913.
The Shakuson Shōfu Kai imported five Theravada monks from Sri Lanka, but it did not take root in Japan, nor Dhammapala's visits did not have much of a lasting effect. Satō Tetsuro of the current Japan Theravada Buddhism Association theorizes that Meiji period Japanese were firmly attached to their own traditions and there was a prejudice against “Hinayana Buddhism.
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Dann muss es doch von Sōen Shaku oder seinen Nachfolgern Texte zum Verhältnis zum Theravada geben, oder?
Und wie sieht es in Vietnam aus, wo ja Thiền und Thervada in enger Nachbarschaft lebten?
Un in welcher Form wird der thervada Buddhismus an Zen Unis wie der Hanazono gelehrt?
Im Jahr 2012 besuchten Thervada Mönche die Hanazono-Universität. https://www.facebook.com/shimada.yushi/posts/383064468407135 und meditierten dort im Zendo.
Viellechit versteht man sich dort am besten. Im Schweigen, im Meditieren, im Praktizieren.