Zen grew up as one of the periodic movements of renewal within Buddhism: an effort to turn away from routinized formalism and to reawaken to the original intent behind the teachings. First in China, then in Korea and Vietnam, and then in Japan, Zen teachers came on the scene to remind people to take Buddhism to heart, to make it their personal business, to follow the example of the buddhas and past masters and witness the reality of the Dharma.
~J. C. Cleary
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