三寶教團; 禪修=Meditation; 新興宗教=新興宗教運動=the rising religion=New Religious Movements=NRM; 日本佛教=Japanese Buddhism
摘要
The Sanbokyodan (Three Treasures Association) is a contemporary Zen movement that was founded by Yasutani Hakuun (1885-1973) in 1954. The style of Zen propagated by Sanbokyodan teachers, noteworthy for its single-minded emphasis on the experience o/kensho, diverges markedly from more traditional models found in Soto, Rinzai，or Obaku training halls. In fact, the Sanbokyodan displays many characteristic traits of the so-called New Religions. (This is particularly noteworthy as the influence of the Sanbokyodan on Western conceptions of Zen has been far out of proportion to its relatively marginal status in Japan.) The arti cle concludes with some reflections on category formation in the study of Japanese religion, arguing that there is an overtly ideological dimension to the rubric of “old” versus “new.” The manner in which scholars of Japanese religion represent the disjunction between the New Religions and traditional Japanese Buddhism may owe as much to the division of labor in the field as to the nature of the phenomenon itself.
