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Source: Byōdō-in Temple, "All You Need to Know About Visiting Japanese Buddhist Temples", Mobal
No ma er who you are, monk, nun, or an 'average
person', Buddhism does not discriminate between
those on the path to Enlightenment

BEAT POETS: Beat poets were Buddhism is divided into branches
writers dedicated to challenging and separated by class: the clergy
conventional writing norms. “They and the laity.
pushed their work to extremes” The clergy, more aptly known as
claims Edward Foster, they used monks, or nuns, and are formal
“more extreme language, testing followers of Buddhism. They
boundaries of diction and renounce worldly pleasures and a
expression.” While utilizing normative existence, and instead
introspection, re ection, and self reside in temples while strictly
discovery to uncover the “true adhering to the Buddhist
modes of perception.” teachings of their sect.
The laity are common folk,
BUDDHISM was introduced to ordinary people in ordinary
Japan through Korea during the occupations seeking salvation
6th century. There are up to a through the path of
dozen leading sects of Buddhism enlightenment. They may engage
in existence, with over thirty minor in teachings under guidance of a
sects. Sects are simply branches of clergy, participate in meditation
Buddhism typically formed as a studies, and travel to communal
result of spiritual and political Buddhist centers for rites and
di erences. studies.