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Borup's engaged ethnographic study breathes life into ideals and critically draws the reader back to a living religion, raising questions that will fundamentally enrich one's quest for satori with a compendium of descriptions of socio-historical, practical and embodied actualities, all the while guiding the reader with conceptual notions and Japanese terminology that are certain to be useful to any further academic study - A. Sevilla, Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies, 2008. The strengths of Borup's study is that it offers a clear and detailed presentation of the monastic system and practices-including education, rituals, festivals, and ordination-that constitute the center of Rinzai Zen religious life. - George A. Keyworth, Religious Studies Review, 2009 Jorn Borup's detailed study of the Rinzai denomination of Buddhism gives us the opportunity to see Temple Buddhism as a multidimensional phenomenon in contemporary Japan and should be read by anyone with an interest in modern or contemporary Japanese Buddhism. - Stephen G. Covell, The Journal of Japanese Studies, 2010.

Borup's engaged ethnographic study breathes life into ideals and critically draws the reader back to a living religion, raising questions that will fundamentally enrich one's quest for satori with a compendium of descriptions of socio-historical, practical and embodied actualities, all the while guiding the reader with conceptual notions and Japanese terminology that are certain to be useful to any further academic study - A. Sevilla, Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies, 2008. The strengths of Borup's study is that it offers a clear and detailed presentation of the monastic system and practices-including education, rituals, festivals, and ordination-that constitute the center of Rinzai Zen religious life. - George A. Keyworth, Religious Studies Review, 2009 Jorn Borup's detailed study of the Rinzai denomination of Buddhism gives us the opportunity to see Temple Buddhism as a multidimensional phenomenon in contemporary Japan and should be read by anyone with an interest in modern or contemporary Japanese Buddhism. - Stephen G. Covell, The Journal of Japanese Studies, 2010.

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Jørn Borup (b. 1966) Ph.D. (2002) and M.A. in The Study of Religion and Japanese, is assistant professor at Aarhus University, Denmark. He has published on Buddhism in Japan and Denmark, mainly in Danish.

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