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1. Group Members
1. Ven. Budhi Ram chaudhary ID-5601201048
2. Ven. Indacara ID-5601201042
3. Ven. Adika ID-5601201068
4. Ven. Jaivainda
5. Ven. Thoung Thach ID-

2.  The Zen doctrines would appear in a completely
different perspective. It should be noted that Zen
Buddhism replaced the Madhyamika and Yogacara
schools which were extremely popular in China.
 Although Zen may have developed as a result of the
Madhayamika-Yogacara syncretism, yet there is much
in Zen Buddhism that represents a rejection of some the
basic tenets and practices of those two schools.
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3. Two Eminent Scholars
1. D. T. Prof. Suzuki
2. Heinrich Dumoulin
 Prof. Suzuki- The Theory of an absolute based on
Mahayana Sutta called the Lotus.
 Heinrich Dumoulin demonstarted his concept
similar to Nagarjuna based on Prajnaparamitas
Sutta, Madhhyamika and Zen Buddhist concepts.

5.  Nirvana is regarded as consummate salvation, supreme
blessedness, the haven of peace and isle of deliverance.
 Attention was called to this contradiction in the
teachings of the Buddha, and he was asked whether the
perfected One would or would not exist beyond death.
 The Buddha declined to answer this question.
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6.  Such attribution are based on the belief that the basic
teachings of the Buddha remained unchanged until the
time of Zen.
 The teaching of the Buddha underwent rather
significant changes and that these changes were
prompted by the needs and aspirations of the followers,
as well as by historical circumstances.
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7.  The study of the early Buddhism in China reveals the
extent to which the Chinese Buddhist were engrossed
in the practice of meditation.
 Tradition has it that Bodhidharma, the first patriarch
who emphasized the practice of meditation, remained
seated for nine years before the wall of a monastery
until his legs withered away.
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8.  Northern sect was influenced by Yogacara ideas and the
southern sect was inspired by Madhyamika ideas.
 These two sects were probably the forerunners of the
two main streams of Zen that flourished later in both
China and Japan.
 The Ts’ao-tung sect, which advocated ‘silent
illumination’ and which probably was inspired by the
northern sect and its Yogacara ideas, came to be known
as the Soto sect of Japanese Zen.
 Pag173-174

9. Zen developed in the absolutist background of the
Prjnaparamita literature, which cantains statements like
the following;
Zen Buddhism differs from early Buddhism with regard
to the former and compares well with it in regard to the
later.
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