{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"","title":"Zen (Chan) - Part 5: Zen’s global presence and the tradition in the twenty-first century","description":"Imagine a tradition rooted in Chinese monasteries, Japanese temples, and Korean mountains—now practiced in city apartments, online, and in university classrooms around the world. Zen today is at once ancient and contemporary, local and global.\r\n\r\nHow does this living stream adapt to a rapidly changing world? What remains, and what evolves? In modern China, Chan practice continues within the wider Mahayana landscape. Temples such as Lingyin in Hangzhou and Tiantong in Zhejiang are both pilgrimage sites and active monasteries. In Japan, the Soto and Rinzai networks remain strong. Soto’s head temples, Eihei-ji and Sōji-ji, serve as training centers for dharma transmission, preserving Dōgen’s contemplative approach. Rinzai institutions, like Myōshin-ji in Kyoto, emphasize koan curricula and intensive sesshin. Korea’s Seon tradition thrives within the Jogye Order and the Taego Order, maintaining both mountain training and urban temple life. Vietnamese Thiền draws on historical temples and modern movements, including the influential Plum Village community founded by Thích Nhất Hạnh in nineteen eighty-two in France. There, meditation merges with engaged Buddhism—peace work, ecology, and ethics.\r\n\r\nLearn more at: https://thecreedarchive.com/creed/zen-buddhism","author_name":"The Archive Network"}