The Religion of the Samurai
Kaiten Nukariya
A study of Zen Buddhism and why it became the faith of Japan's warrior class, by a Zen scholar of the Soto school. It traces Zen from China to the Kamakura shoguns and explains its ideas on discipline and death.
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