Nagarjuna theory twotruths

Irish tao eriugena

Nan Chan – Southern Chan School, mainstream Chinese Buddhist spread to Japan and becoming Zen

Master Dogen completed training Buddhism in China and return to Japan. Founded Soto Zen

Most effective Zen Japanese thought in Kyoto school founded Nishida Kitaro

Leibniz

Tsu-jan / spontaneity

Wu/ as of letting go

Yu/ as the act of creative presencing

Ex nihilo/ no source

Heart-mind/ hsien

Shi/ aspired to raise life above ordinary leve of society

Ziran/ self worth

Zhen/ genuinely

Renxing/ human potential

Kierkegaard

Modern Zen/ Dang dai Chan in Chinese

Wu/ way of attaining enlightenment

Yi/ changes

Shen/ power of nature

Chan is Chinese term for dhyana(Sanskrit) / meditation

Dun wu for Chan masters is tranquil and direct awakening of the Buddha nature

Dharma/ truth of Buddha

Satori/ discipline of enlightenment

Nishida Kitaro’s philosophy of ‘’aboslute nothingness’’/zettai mu

Shin no jiko/ true self

Tai ji/ great primal beginning

Zhu Xi system
Sheng/ giving birth to, give rise to, creation and generation

Wuji/ something which is nothing. Something that cannot be said, no characteristic to be described