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"This book is intended to engender debate. Its subject, faith in a modern Buddhist context, almost always carries with it the widespread but erroneous assumption that it is completely unimportant to the Buddhist path. Without really knowing what it is and how it differs from theistic versions, faith has been given a bad name. Moreover, naivety regarding the colonial orientalist agenda and bias of early Zen exegetes in the West has allowed modern Zennists to accept, almost unquestioningly, the view that faith and knowledge occupy opposite ends of the practice spectrum. As a result, trusted and authentic sources of authority, Zen ancestors and sutras, have often been prevented from speaking about a doctrinally sound and legitimate tool of realization mentioned in a stunningly large amount of sutras. It has also resulted in an erroneous and often condescending view of """"faith schools"""" of Buddhism. Now is the perfect time in Zen's journey in the West to reassess and address these shortcomings."

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Joanne P. Miller was brought up in the Protestant tradition and has been a meditator for over two decades. She is currently completing the Zen koan curriculum of the Sanbo-Zen lineage. She has qualifications in systematic theology and buddhist studies as well as a PhD from The University of Queensland in the sociology of religion. As a former teacher of the study of religion in a Catholic senior high school, her interests lie in the many ways in which meditational insight can be applied to everyday life. She is the author of Buddhist Meditation and the Internet: Practices and Possibilities (2012), Julian and the Buddha: Common Points Along the Way (2016), and Zen and the Gospel of Thomas (2018).

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