His schooling in this gozan era was aristocratic and classical, founded on Chinese literature and the Buddhist sutras.
We need only note that the gozan system, which so effectively gave Zen an official presence throughout Japan, also meant that the institution present was Zen in name only.
Philip Yampolsky, "Muromachi Zen and theGozan System," in John W.
The gozan system soon turned so political, as monasteries competed for official favor, that before long establishment Zen was almost devoid of spiritual content.
He was really attacking the literarygozan movement, the preoccupation of monks who forsook Zen to concentrate on producing forgettable verse in formal Chinese.
He was also responsible for a revision of the gozan administrative system, establishing (in 1338) official Zen temples in all sixty-six provinces of Japan and spreading the power base of the faith.
But the gozan priests seemed to concern themselves more and more with trivialities.
The creation of the gozan system at the end of the thirteenth century gave Zen a formal role in the religious structure of Japan.
And he put them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan and in the cities of the Medes[166].
The extent of their land is twenty days' journey, and they have cities and large villages in the mountains; the river Gozan forms the boundary on the one side.
Footnote 166: The British Museum text has: "And he put them in Halah and in Habor and the mountains of Gozan and the mountains of the Medes.
Footnote 115: The Gozan river cannot be, as tacitly assumed by Asher, the Kizil Uzun (also known as the Araxes).
The Israelites were removed from Samaria, and planted partly in Gozan or Mygdonia, and partly in the cities recently taken from the Medes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gozan" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
