Zen Buddhist Perspectives on Modern Education

Zen Buddhist views on contemporary education Abstract: In recent years, many articles and books on Buddhism have been published, but there are few publications on the viewpoint of Buddhist education. In this article I will explain Zen's view on modern education. The history of Buddhist education is long and complicated. For centuries (400 BC - 800 AD), Indian and Chinese Buddhist monasteries were operated as education centers.

Zen Buddhism Suzuki of Japan (1870-1966) played an important role to bring Zen to the West, his Buddhist modernism work is very influential in the United States. Suzuki's world view is Zen influenced by Romanticism and transcendence, which promotes spiritual freedom as "voluntary and liberal consciousness transcending reasonable wisdom and social customs". This Buddhist concept has influenced the fallen writer and the modern representative of the Western Buddhism Romanticism was Gary Snyder. A young American Buddhist monk, Tanisaro Bic, criticized "Buddhism Romanticism" in his writings.

In modern times, the development of Western Buddhism which was influenced by modern psychology and Western philosophy, the rise of Buddhism modernism and humanitarian Buddhism under the influence of the West. Important representatives of Buddhist modernism include Anagarica Dalmapara (1864-1933) and American Henry Steel Olcott, Chinese modernist Taixu (1890-1947), Shinho (1906-2005), Zen scholar DT Suzuki There is Tibetan Gendün Chöphel (1903). 1951) Buddhism Modernism is the form of Buddhism that comes into contact with mainstream culture and contemporary intellectual forces. The power that influences modernists such as Dhammapala and Yin Shun includes values ​​of enlightenment and Western science. Influential Indian Dalit leader B. R. Ambedkar created a new Buddhist movement in the 1950s and emphasized social and political reforms.

Chicago Buddhist delegation includes Shaku Sōen which is the Zen master of Japan and Anagārika Dharmapāla of Buddhist reformer of Sri Lanka. He learned Western science and philosophy to modernize his own tradition. These Western influenced Buddhists showed their tradition to contemporary western audiences, as this is the tradition of "non-theory" and "rationality", God without competition, irrational beliefs or doubt Ceremony of meaning insisting that there is no room In fact, traditional Buddhism, in addition to sacred text, pastors, morals, sectarian development, and other elements that people usually associate with every systematic religion, many God, doctrine and ceremonies. But in the World Council of 1893, Buddhist monks only presented a tradition of meditation to contemporary America as a practical philosophy, not religion. To this day, this view of Buddhism still exists in the United States.