Arthur Koestler analogizes Confucianism to the lotus and Zen to one of these title beings in a 1960 book chronicling his time in India and Japan. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name these beings. The Zen-practicing engineer Masahiro Mori drew on Buddha sculpture as models for avoiding the "uncanny valley" in designing parts for them.
ANSWER: robots [or automatons or automata; or androids; accept The Lotus and the Robot]
[10m] In The Buddha and The Robot, Mori concludes that robots have this quality, following Dogen’s argument that inanimate objects have it. When asked if a dog has this quality, Zhaozhou (“JOW-Joe”) replies, “Mu,” in the “Mu-koan.”
ANSWER: buddha-nature [or tathagatagarbha; or rúláizàng; or buddhadhātu; or bussho; or answers indicating the potential or ability to become a Buddha; prompt on Buddhahood]
[10h] In Kyoto's Kodai-ji temple, the robotic Mindar elaborates upon the Heart Sutra in one of these discourses, of which teisho are considered a Zen subclass. You may give the common English term for these Buddhist doctrinal orations.
ANSWER: dharma talks [or dharma sermons; or dharma-desana; accept "dhamma" in place of "dharma" in any of the above; accept hogo; prompt on just talks or sermons] (Goto Tensho, the scriptwriter for Mindar's dharma talk, considers the robot to manifest the bodhisattva Kannon, but does not believe that Mindar can attain Buddhahood, per
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