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Introduced to Japan from India by way of China, Zen is a sect of Buddhism. Zen's rejection of the written doctrine differentiates it from the other schools of Buddhism. Studying the sutras is part of the process in attaining Nirvana (Enlightenment) for most Buddhist followers, but the practitioner of Zen seeks to attain enlightenment through meditation and contemplation excluding study of the sacred writings. The Sixth Patriarch Tearing up a sutra (only on exhibit till November 25 due to its fragility) graphically depicts this rejection...
...Coming. He described how they had lost their way, inventing new religion, new barriers to understanding. He broke with them: "I desire those who seek to understand me to be free, not to follow me, not to make of me a cage which will become a religion, a sect. Rather they should be free...
...women may have to wage a similar uphill campaign. Yet religious history favors their cause. The U.S., after all, has a certain tradition of female church leadership, including, among the earliest, Mother Ann Lee, founder of the egalitarian Shaker sect. Mary Baker Eddy continued the tradition by founding the Christian Science movement (in which a majority of the "practitioners" and "readers" are women). Indeed, both the Christian Science churches and the Shakers challenge the traditionally male image of God the "Father," referring to God as both Father and Mother. In so doing, they anticipated the admonition of early 20th century...
...this were the accepted symbol of the Quakers or any organized religious sect which is absolutely pacifistic, we would not register it," C. M. Wendt, director of the Patent Office's trademark examining office, said...
...sect, which is a Pekinglining splinter of India's Communist movement, is known as the Naxalites. Praised by Radio Peking as "the front paw of India's revolution," the Mao-quoting Naxalites pose a fifth-column threat in any new Sino-Indian conflict. They have already staked a violent claim to the allegiance of the docile peasants. In 1967 they masterminded a short-lived but bloody tribal revolt at the foot of the Himalayas near Nepal in the region of Naxalbari-from which the group takes its name. For six weeks bands of peasants armed with guns, spears...