Buddhism

1
Buddhism

• Corporate and Historical

2
Corporate Zen

• Corporate Training Programs
• Zen and the Postwar Japanese Military

3
What Is Buddhism?

• Buddha Shakyamunis Social Consciousness
• Life of the Buddha
• The Early Buddhist Sangha and the State
• King Ashoka The Ideal Buddhist Ruler?

4
Buddhism in China

• Confucian Critique of Early Buddhism in China
• Subordination of Buddhism to the State
• Chan
• Iconoclasm
• Preliminary Conclusion

5
Buddhism in Japan

• Prince Shotoku and the Introduction of Buddhism
  to Japan
• The State and Zen Masters Eisai and Dogen
• Development of Samurai Zen
• Fossilization of Buddhism and Zen

6
Doctrinal Support for Violence and Warfare as
Seen in the Sutras

• Karmic Killing
• State Protecting Buddhism
• Samurai Zen

7
Osamu Tezukas Understanding of Religion

• Disillusionment in a fractured cosmos
• Quest for the unattainable and the politics of
  faith
• The sacredness of limits but the inevitable
  cycles of being
• History is now and all of those problems
• The Triumph of Love Capitalism or metaphysical
  insight?