/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>11191273
In order to preach buddhism, you need to have had dharma transmission. This means that you have studied under a teacher and they have made you their heir. The dharma lines can be traced back for a long time, and are a major part of biuddhist history. Cases where someone started preaching on their own, and being required as enlightened and carrying their own personal zen, are very rare. Buddhism emphasis this student teacher relationship very much. This does not mean that Byakuren did not revive transmission, we just do not see any evidence of it.

>>11191978
Dealing with post satori training, and teachers, people who are long time practices of meditation seem to have this way of holding themselves, and of moving. Its like adding water to moving water. They dont seem to move when they move. Byakuren is someone who, especially in SoPM, is perceived as kind of a fool, is easily fooled, and made fused and confused easily. Thats not how a master or roshi presents themselves. Again, this is a personal issue, and I doubt that zun intended to have Byakuren be a perfect example. It just makes the character seem less real in my eyes.

Byakuren's backstory, like many touhou's, is unknown in its completeness, and due to ZUN's absentmindedness, will probably stay that way, which is a pity, because its a cool story what we know, and I think most of us here want to know more and more about the people in this world.

>>10492058
Byakuren started out cool, but her stupid dialog in symposium in post mysticism made her kind of painfully annoying and preachy. Miko's dialog in TD is pretty epic if you ask me.

>Miko: "and now you will bear your fangs at me, for no reason at all."

>Reimu: "Yeah, for no reason at all"

Don't tell me you did not get shivers during that exchange.

Her theme is better as well, Emotional Skyscraper is awesome, but Final Administrator has an undercurrent of real fighting. Kind of like Nuclear Fusion, where the music makes the battle all the more desperate. Don't get me wrong, I am a buddhist and like Hijiri a lot, bit Miko has more going for her in my eyes.

Why aren't you a Buddhist /jp/? Zen is about as Japan as you can get.