Dispute
It was discovered that Master Kenzô, although a teacher of archery, was neither a teacher nor an adherent of Zen Buddhism. What Kenzô calls the "Great Doctrine" in the book was his own original practice, the Daishakyôdô, the "Way of the Great Doctrine of Shooting" rather than Zen.
At first, Herrigel did not characterize his lessons as a form of Zen when he wrote about his experience in 1936. When he read D.T. Suzuki in 1938, he decided that Kenzô's teaching actually was Zen. Suzuki obviously endorsed this identification, since he wrote the introduction to the post-war edition of Herrigel's book. Modern scholarship on Zen has come to regard Suzuki's own reading of Zen as idiosyncratic and not grounded in traditions of Zen. What distinguishes the approach of Suzuki, Herrigel, and Master Kenzô himself is the way they developed the Taoist features of the tradition.
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