Haikus.
Bassho invented the haiku forms as we have them today, but what he invented that truly impacted us is the HAIBUN: a combination of haiku poetry and descriptive prose.
Bassho created the haiku structure to fit smoothly with his narrative, but others also contributed haiku to Bassho's notebooks.
Zen (A Buddhist sect)
There are quite a few Zen Buddhist monasteries in PA. Below is a link to a list from DharmaWeb.
Haiku is most closely associated with Buddhism, since most of the ancient masters including Basho, Buson and Issa practiced it in one form or another and often reference Buddhist texts,aspects of Buddhist life and various zen teachings in their work.
Zen Buddhists meditate in Temples.
Zen is Buddhist sect in the same way that Baptists are a Christian sect.
Zen buddhist
Good question. Zen Buddhism is the meditation school (variety) of Buddhism. Anyone who engages in zazen and the other practices of Zen Buddhism may be considered a Zen Buddhist. This, though, is misleading because, according to The Buddha, there is no such thing as a separate self; an human individual person is really a congeries of qualities. Strictly speaking, therefore, there is no one to be a Zen Buddhist! .
There is no "Zen Buddha" there is "Zen Buddhism". Zen Buddhism is a school of Buddhist thought centered on meditation and the instantaneous awareness of the whole in any situation.
Zen
because they are
No. Practicing Zen is looking into "What am I?" So if you have an "I," then you can benefit from examining and questioning its true nature. There's no need to be a Buddhist, or anything else.
There is no Zen or Buddhist language. Any special words to describe aspects of the Buddhist beliefs come from Pali, Japanese, Chinese or Tibetan