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Makiguchi the value creator : Revolutionary Japanese educator and founder of Soka gakkai
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ISBN: 0834800772 Year: 1973 Publisher: New York Weatherhill

Zen war stories.
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ISBN: 0203037421 1283886464 1136127623 9781136127625 9780203037423 0700715800 9780700715800 0700715819 9780700715817 9781136127786 113612778X 9781136127700 1136127704 9781283886468 Year: 2005 Publisher: London RoutledgeCurzon

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Following the critically acclaimed Zen at War (1997), Brian Victoria explores the intimate relationship between Japanese institutional Buddhism and militarism during the Second World War.Victoria reveals for the first time, through examination of the wartime writings of the Japanese military itself, that the Zen school's view of life and death was deliberately incorporated into the military's programme of 'spiritual education' in order to develop a fanatical military spirit in both soldiers and civilians. Furthermore, that D. T. Suzuki, the most famous exponent of Zen in the West

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