Confucian Values and Popular Zen : Sekimon Shingaku in Eighteenth Century Japan

Professor of Religious Studies and East Asian Studies Janine T Anderson Sawada
University of Hawaii Press
9780824814144
0-8248-1414-2

A study of Shingaku, a popular religious teaching in early modern Japan that selectively combined elements of Neo-Confucianism and Zen. Especially notes its mystical and moral elements to show that it was more than a facile merchant ethic. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.