Criticism

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Coming Down from the Zen Clouds A critique of the current state of American Zen. By Stuart Lachs.
A Critical Review of the International Zen Association "The practice of Zen within the AZI is far more than a simple practice of sitting meditation. The meditation offered is loaded with and embedded into a complex ideological and authoritarian system of belief which is insidiously implanted into the participants while labelling it as "true Dharma".
Butsudo Criticism of AZI AZI has been accused of an authoritarian and sectarian drift. Also, the AZI has been publicly claiming it is Buddhist, in particular on television. Nevertheless a number of its leaders voice the idea that AZI's Zen is not Buddhist.
Zen Holy War? Review of the book, Zen at War, an expose of Japanese Zen establishment and its realtionship to the imperial war machine from the late 1800's through World War II.
Apology for What the Founder of the Sanbo-Kyodan, Haku'un Yasutani Roshi, Said and Did during World War II Apology by Jiun Kubota, The 3rd Patriarch of the Religious Foundation Sanbo-kyodan, repenting the support of Japanese aggression in World War II by Sanbo-Kyodan and its founder.
"Zen Master Rama" Frederick Lenz, III An irreverent look at the community surrounding the late Rama/Frederick Lenz -- self-proclaimed "Zen Master."
A Critical Review of the International Zen Association from Dark Zen.

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