Japanese

Japanese philosophy draws deeply on Buddhism, Confucianism, and Shinto while developing distinctive ideas about impermanence, the unity of practice and enlightenment, the aesthetics of transience, and the nature of nothingness. From the Zen philosophy of Dōgen to the Pure Land thought of Hōnen and Shinran, the Nichiren tradition, and the modern Kyoto School's encounter between Buddhist thought and Western phenomenology, Japan has produced a philosophical tradition of great depth and originality.