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The Religion of the Samurai

by Kaiten Nukariya

This work was written in the early 1900s with the intention of describing the origins of Zen Buddhism in the Mahayana school and highlighting its differences from Theravada Buddhism. The author, Kaiten Nukariya, was a professor of Buddhist studies at Keio University in Tokyo, Japan, at the time of publication. The book also covers how Zen Buddhism was practiced in China and Japan.