re: #161 Killgore Trout

They were/are. Zen is a very small minority in Japan and China.

Buddhism and Shinto are syncretic, and you are a goddamned moron.

About 85 million people in Japan, accounting for 2/3 of the population, are affiliated with Buddhism in some way, often nominally - in various surveys, 70-85% of Japanese profess no religious membership or personal religion.[2][3][4][5] Most Japanese Buddhists are also similarly affiliated with Shinto, as neither of the two religions demand exclusivity.