Once upon a time, in a certain town there was a coffin maker who opened and was running a store where he sold the coffins he made himself to the customers in the neighborhood. The popuplation in the town increased day-by-day.
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Historical
Reference Sources for Buddhism
Written by Allan Sherlen, this paper is an examination of historical reference sources for Buddhism revealed a wide variety of sources from abbreviated biographies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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