Researcher, Kyoto, Japan
Brian Victoria is a senior research fellow at the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies. He is also a Buddhist priest in the Soto Zen sect. He is author of Zen War Stories (2003) and Zen at War (2006). His most recent publication is entitled Zen Terror in Prewar Japan: Portrait of an Assassin (2020).
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Religion
Zen terror
Master Nissho Inoue and his band of assassins teach some uncomfortable truths about terrorism, for those who will hear
Brian Victoria
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Religion
Breath of life
Shinto is uniquely Japanese, yet embodies a once-universal animistic religion of wind and fire, gods and animal spirits
Brian Victoria