Robert H. Sharf - Essays on the Zen of Japanese Nationalism - on line

Some essays that are available on-line from the brilliant academic Robert H. Sharf. If you want to read something about Japanese Zen history during the last few hundred years and the push for Zen acceptance in the West, these are the articles to read.

http://www.thezensite.com/ZenEssays/CriticalZen/whose%20zen_sharf.pdf

and

http://buddhiststudies.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/sharf/documents/Sharf1993,%20Zen%20Nationalism.pdf