The exquisite Shunkai whose other name was Suzu was compelled to marry against her wishes when she was quite young. Later, after this marriage had ended, she attended the university, where she studied philosophy.
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Here are some useful resources on the web on the history of Zen and Buddhism:
1.Historical
Reference Sources for Buddhism
Written by Allan Sherlen, this paper is an examination of historical reference sources for Buddhism revealed a wide variety of sources from abbreviated biographies
of Guatama Buddha in biographical encyclopedias to lengthy, monographic biographies of obscure Buddhist teachers.
2.Buddhism, an introduction
This is a very long introduction to the history and the teachings of Buddhism. I highly recommend this draft of a chapter from a forthcoming book, Anthology of Scriptures of World Religions, by John Powers and James Fieser, to be published by McGraw-Hill Publications in 1997.
3.Zen Buddhism
Here you can find a brief introduction to Zen.
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