Question
Roboticist Masahiro Mori’s book The Buddha and the Robot extends an argument by this thinker to conclude that robots have the Buddha-nature. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this monk who wrote that inanimate objects express the Buddha-nature in his Shōbōgenzō. He brought the Cáodòng school to Japan, for which he is called the founder of the Sōtō school of Zen.
ANSWER: Dōgen [or Kigen Dōgen; or Dōgen Zenji; or Eihei Dōgen; or Koso Joyo Daishi]
[10h] In the rival Rinzai school’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]
[10e] Longquan Monastery’s Robot Monk Xian’er is available as a chatbot on Facebook and this other app. Christian, Falun Gong, and Qixi Festival-related content have been censored on this Chinese social media app.
ANSWER: WeChat [or Weixin] (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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