When I started Zen I met a western man who had a Japanese wife. She wasn’t interested in Zen because she was raised with Pureland and didn’t believe in Amitabha

When I started Zen I met a western man who had a Japanese wife. She wasn’t interested in Zen because she was raised with Pureland and didn’t believe in Amitabha so was skeptical of all Buddhism. I think most westerners are similar: we mostly think of Buddhism as the Dalai Lama with lots of different Buddhas and complex cosmology. The irony is that the complexity mostly represents the pre-buddhist parts.