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INDIAN CULTURE
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Pikachu
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Matsushita
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Zen
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Totoro
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Detailed explanation-1: -Zen is the Japanese development of the school of Mahayana Buddhism that originated in China as Chan Buddhism.
Detailed explanation-2: -According to these statistics, the largest sects of Japanese Buddhism are the Jōdo Buddhists with 22 million believers, followed by the Nichiren Buddhists with 11 million believers.
Detailed explanation-3: -Zen is a school of Buddhism which emphasises the practice of meditation as the key ingredient to awakening ones inner nature, compassion and wisdom. The practice of meditation (Zen in Japanese) as a means of attaining enlightenment was introduced, as we have seen, by the Buddha himself.
Detailed explanation-4: -Of the main branches of Buddhism, it is the Mahayana or “Greater Vehicle” Buddhism which found its way to Japan.