Shingaku

Shingaku (心学, lit. "heart learning") is a Japanese religious movement, founded by Ishida Baigan and further developed by Teshima Toan, which was especially influential during the Tokugawa period. Shingaku has been characterized as coming from a Neo-Confucian tradition, integrating principles from Zen Buddhism. It has been speculated, Shingaku was one of the cultural foundations for Japan's industrialization. (Sawada, 1993; Bellah, 1957)

References

• Janine Anderson Sawada, Confucian Values and Popular Zen: Sekimon Shingaku in Eighteenth-Century Japan. Honolulu: The University of Hawaii. Press, 1993. ISBN 0-8248-1414-2. from Template:PDF
• speech in honor of the 250th anniversary of the Founding of Shingaku
• Robert N. Bellah, Tokugawa Religion: The Values of Pre-Industrial Japan, 1957