What is Western Zen?
Is it different from Asian Zen?
Is one more legitimate?
What about lineages—are they important? Are they real?
How about rituals/ceremonies/defined practice forms? Do they matter?
Are different types of practice more valid than others—seated/walking/bowing/chanting/kongan, hwadu?
How about robes/rakusus, gasas, ban gasas—important or not?
What about requirements--# of hours in retreats/sessions/kong-an curricula
What about titles/ordination levels/transmission—are they legitimate? Do they serve any purpose?
How about Dharma transmission?
What about people referring to themselves as “Zen Master?”
Our panel of Zen pundits--Robert Koho Epstein, Wayne Dae'An Bivens-Tatum, and Haengdal Citta--weigh in on these topics from host & moderator Myeong Jin Eunsahn.
