Editing Panentheism (section)

=== Buddhism ===
{{See also|Nondualism in Buddhism}}

====Zen Buddhism====
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The Reverend [[Zen]] Master [[Soyen Shaku]] was the first Zen Buddhist Abbot to tour the United States in 1905–6. He wrote a series of essays collected in the book ''Zen For Americans''. In the essay titled "The God Conception of Buddhism," he attempts to explain how a Buddhist looks at the Ultimate without an anthropomorphic God figure while still being able to relate to the term God in a Buddhist sense:

<blockquote>At the outset, let me state that Buddhism is not [[Atheism|atheistic]] as the term is ordinarily understood. It has certainly a God, the [[Ultimate reality|highest reality]] and [[truth]], through which and in which this universe exists. However, the followers of Buddhism usually avoid the term God, for it savors so much of Christianity, whose spirit is not always exactly in accord with the Buddhist interpretation of religious experience. Again, Buddhism is not [[Pantheism|pantheistic]] in the sense that it identifies the universe with God. On the other hand, the Buddhist God is absolute and transcendent; this world, being merely its manifestation, is necessarily fragmental and imperfect. To define more exactly the Buddhist notion of the highest being, it may be convenient to borrow the term very happily coined by a modern German scholar, "panentheism," according to which God is πᾶν καὶ ἕν (all and one) and more than the totality of existence.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Zen for Americans |url=//archive.org/details/ZenForAmericans/page/n38/mode/1up |publication-date=1987}}</ref><ref>''Zen For Americans'' by [[Soyen Shaku]], translated by [[Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki]], 1906, pages 25–26. {{Cite web|title=Zen for Americans: The God-Conception of Buddhism|url=https://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/zfa/zfa04.htm|access-date=2020-11-08|website=www.sacred-texts.com}}</ref></blockquote>

The essay then goes on to explain first utilizing the term "God" for the American audience to get an initial understanding of what he means by "panentheism," and then discusses the terms that Buddhism uses in place of "God" such as [[Dharmakaya]], [[Buddha]] or [[Adi-Buddha]], and [[Tathagata]].{{citation needed|date=October 2021}}

====Pure Land Buddhism====
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