Kogen Mizuno
was a Bhikkhu#Mahayana, Japanese Buddhist monk of the Sōtō, Soto sect and scholar of Pre-sectarian Buddhism, Early Buddhism. He served as president of Komazawa University where he attained the status of emeritus, professor emeritus. He held a Doctorate of Letters degree from the (University of Tokyo) and had an honorary Doctor of Letters, Doctorate of Literature degree from Nalanda University. Career Mizuno was born in Saga Prefecture in 1901 and attended Soto Zen Daishi Junior High School (known now as Takagawa Gakuen High School/Junior High School) and then Yamaguchi High School. In 1928, he enrolled in University of Tokyo, Tokyo Imperial University where he graduated from the Department of Indian Philosophy, Faculty of Letters, before entering the same university's graduate school. In 1935, he became a lecturer at Komazawa University where he was promoted in 1940, as a professor. Mizuno was renowned for specializing in Pali literature. From 1959 to 1962, he was also a pr ...
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Pre-sectarian Buddhism
Pre-sectarian Buddhism, also called early Buddhism, the earliest Buddhism, original Buddhism, and primitive Buddhism, is Buddhism as theorized to have existed before the various Early Buddhist schools developed, around 250 BCE (followed by later subsects of Buddhism). The contents and teachings of this pre-sectarian Buddhism must be deduced or re-constructed from the earliest Buddhist texts, which by themselves are already sectarian. The whole subject remains intensely debated by scholars, not all of whom believe a meaningful reconstruction is possible. "Early Buddhism" may also be used for considerably later periods. Name Various terms are being used to refer to the earliest period of Buddhism: * "Pre-sectarian Buddhism" * "Early Buddhism", * "The earliest Buddhism", * "Original Buddhism", * "The Buddhism of the Buddha himself." * Precanonical Buddhism * Primitive Buddhism Some Japanese scholars refer to the subsequent period of the early Buddhist schools as ''sectarian ...
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