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EPISODE · Sep 27, 2024 · 34 MIN

Episode 547 - The Five Mountains, Part 1

from History of Japan

This week on the Footnotes to the Revised Introduction to Japanese History: many describe Zen as the religion of the samurai. In reality, it was not--but samurai influence was crucial to making Zen a part of Japan's cultural framework. That history is bound up in a system called the "Five Mountains"; so how did that system come to be? Show notes here. 

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