Playboy After Hours

November, 1957

Anybody remember Coué? Dianetics? Mah Jong? Pyramid Clubs? Ouija? Fine; attend, please, while we give you in a mere few words the whole story, complete in this issue, of Zen, the new West-Coast-Cool kick which is rivaling green stamps in interest. First off, Buddhism got exported from India to China in the Sixth Century; one form of Chinese Buddhism is known as Ch'an; when the Chinese form got took up in Japan in the 12th Century it got dubbed Zen. It also sparked the flowering of some superb li...