Zen Buddhist Philosophy in Japanese Death Poems

The philosophy of Zen in Japanese poetry of death: coping with death All cultures follow a series of unique customs different from their respective cultures. The general understanding of Japanese slander acts by Westerners arises from extreme differences in the traditional lack of views on the lack of ancient culture. A wide range of Japanese Buddhists are known for their peaceful death acceptance as part of their lives. A special, confusing cultural practice is the tradition of writing "seedling" or "poetry of death" because it is on the verge of death.

The traditional art of writing Ha sentences originally started in Japan is now spreading all over the world. At the moment, the spiritual art form emphasizes that the shortness of poetry (only 3 lines) is a reflection of Zen Buddhism philosophy. There are 12 Japanese ha sentences that reflect the important elements of Zen. The Japanese poet Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) in the Edo era completely reflected the spirituality of Zen in his ha sentence. The tranquility of the pond represents a kind of silence and harmony with nature, the silence of the frog jumps in. The sound of water represents a kind of event, the moment of enlightenment.

The Zen Buddhism Suzuki (1870-1966) of Japan played an important role to bring Zen to the West, his Buddhist modernist's 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 young monk Tanisaro Bic criticized "Buddhism Romanticism" in his writings.

Chicago Buddhist delegation includes Shaku Sōen which is the Zen master of Japan and Anagārika Dharmapāla of Buddhist reformer of Sri Lanka. 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 with meaningless scope In fact, traditional Buddhism is a sacred text, a pastor, a moral, a development of a sect, and many other gods, as well as other elements that people usually associate with every systematic religion I have rituals. 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.