The Meiji Era, which began in the late 19th century, utterly upended Japanese Buddhism. Sweeping changes enacted by the Meiji Emperor, Mutsuhito (1852–1912) had devastating impacts on Buddhism in ...
If you are a regular reader, you know that I use the phrase “Post Meiji Soto Orthodoxy” or even its acronym, “PMSO,” quite often. So it seems that it might be good to unpack the meaning of this phrase ...