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(1870–1966).
Professor of Buddhist Philosophy at
tani University, Ky
to, from 1921, and an important scholar of
Mah
y
na
Buddhism and
Japanese religion
in general. Having started
Zen
training under two separate masters at the age of 22, his academic work was always informed by a deep spiritual insight. He is chiefly known in the West for his popularization of Zen Buddhism.

 
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Svabh
va
.

‘Self-nature’ or ‘Own-being’: a property which, according to the
M
dhyamaka
, is falsely ascribed to
dharmas
, or the world of phenomenal reality. According to the
Abhidharma
, however, it constituted the unique and inalienable ‘mark’ or characteristic by means of which phenomena could be differentiated and classified. Thus the schools of the
H
nay
na
, while denying a self of persons (
pudgala-nair
tmya
), and explaining personal identity by recourse to the teaching of the Five Aggregates (
skandhas
), nevertheless accepted the substantial reality of those elements (dharmas) which composed the aggregates and the world at large.