Religions of the samurai: Zen

Japan ... Amazing and mysterious country. The edge of copper-brown mountains and blue lakes, rapid rivers and stormy waterfalls, dense forests and emerald green plantations. Land of ancient temples and ultra-modern skyscrapers. Impress the high technologies and scientific and technological progress.
Country spouting horizons. But, rapid step in the 21st century, Japan still carefully keeps his ancient traditions and culture. Legends, myths, legends, amazingly intertwining with real events, weave the colorful thread of the history of the Great Power, hitting the modern world by the violence of collisions, the trickling of feelings and hurricane of emotions. The centuries are dedicated from the rest of the world with sparkling steel samurai swords, Japan relatively recently opened the door to humanity into his inner life, without hiding the past, analyzing the present and building plans for the future.
This series of books will discover the world of Japanese martial arts in close relationship with the historical past of Japan, the traditions and customs of the Japanese people, great events, turning agents, grandiose battles and immortal heroes. The reader will contact the sources of samurai military arts, which developing, transforming and improving, turned into modern types of martial arts, known to the real world as Karate, Aikido, Judo, Cando, Kobudo, Giu-Gitsi. In their descriptions, the reader will follow the way of the development of these species, will get acquainted with their patriarchs, will feel the deep meaning and the inner philosophy of this "weapons", equal to which was not and not in the modern world