Wow. I just read a really "enlightening" (and fairly academic) article about Sanbokyodan, a renegade Japanese Zen sect (sometimes called simply "Harada/Yasutani style" after the Zen masters who started it) that is nonetheless probably the most influential Zen sect in the West. It really helped me put all this Zen stuff into perspective as a sociological phenomenon... I don't know that anyone who reads this is particularly interested, but hey.