Should I look into this topic some more? I mean, this blog has gotten kind of boring lately!
Shin is a sect of Pure Land Buddhism, a devotional form of Mahayana today mostly associated with Japan. Shin is quite popular and "exoteric". Except sometimes! This article deals with covert Shin Buddhists, who for one reason or another refuse to reveal their teachings to outsiders. A group called Urahomon is featured.
The existence of crypto-Shin would probably be completely unknown in the West, had it not been for the fact that D T Suzuki, who popularized Zen in the United States and was married to an American Theosophist, briefly mentioned the existence of a secret Shin group into which he had been initiated at the age of nine (his mother was a member).
Of course, this is precisely the kind of strange stuff I like to investigate on my blog, alongside Posadism, Bigfoot and the taxonomy of the nocturnal Lepidoptera, so here goes...
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