Eisai Buddhist Japan: the "Lotus Sutra", "Golden Light Sutra", and the "Humane King Sutra" ("Ninnōkyō"). Eisai’s famous written piece, the "Kōzen gokokuron" or "The Promotion of Zen for the Protection of the Country", was heavily influenced by the "Ninno kyo" which states “the preservation of Buddhism is inextricably bound to the preservation of their own country”. The "Kōzen gokokuron" was written with the intention to correct established schools of Buddhism by giving them examples of moral practice and to convince the Minamoto military rulers to support Zen Buddhism and a Zen government. The writing promotes the Zen ideals to bring Buddhism
Japanese Zen Japanese Zen Zen is the Japanese variant of Chan Buddhism, a Mahayana school that strongly emphasizes dhyana, the meditative training of awareness and equanimity. This practice, according to Zen proponents, gives insight into one's true nature, or the emptiness of inherent existence, which opens the way to a liberated way of living. According to tradition, Zen originated in India, when Gautama Buddha held up a flower and Mahākāśyapa smiled. With this smile he showed that he had understood the wordless essence of the dharma. This way the dharma was transmitted to Mahākāśyapa, the second patriarch of Zen. The term Zen