Soto 

Soto (曹 洞宗; jap.: sōtō-shū) is one of the five sects of Zen-Buddhism in Japan. Other famous Zen-sects are the Rinzai- and Obaku-sect. With 14,700 temples and nearly 7 million adherents (in 1989) it is the biggest of these Zen-sects.

Soto, still practised both in Japan and in the West, stresses shikantaza, the meditation in simply sitting in a fixed posture. Sitting isn't seen as the means to an end, but an end in itself, a direct means of expressing enlightenment and Buddhahood in an instant.

The sect was founded by Dogen Zenji(1200-1253) a leading religious figure in Japan, whose thoughts are the basis of the sect.

See also: Buddhism

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