Sensh Murakami

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Sensh Murakami ( 1 May 1851-31 October 1929) was a Meiji period Buddhist scholar. He famously introduced Western scholarship on Buddhism for Japan, and because of this was forced to resign from Japanese Buddhist priesthood. His most notable work was, (Discourse on Buddhist Unity), which argued that Japanese Mahayana texts were not the true teachings of Buddha. While he had explained this argument before in a history text, this book, written more in the style of polemic, became famous in intellectual circles. It was also called which has been translated simply as "The Theory That Mahayana Is Not the Buddha's Teachings." However, Murakami believed that Mahayana was nonetheless transcendental truth.