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Uh, The_Dude, you'll note that I said that Bhagavad Gita was "not a Buddhist text".
As to Zen not being a denomination of Buddhism but Buddhism en toto, I'm not sure how you can make that call. There are many different sects/denominations of Buddhism, of which Zen, oh Ch'an, is only one. And calling it not radical is a pretty strange leap too. Zen teaches a very stripped down version of Buddhism that has much less veneration of actual Buddhas, and a lot less meta-physics.
I agree that it is, in essence, a more "pure" form, if you will, but it is nonetheless radical, and it is not the totality of Buddhism. Zen arose from Ch'an Buddhism in China, which arose from either Mahayana or Mahahulpa (sp?) Buddhist missionaries from India travelling in China. It is tough to be the whole of Buddhism when it is only a branch on the tree.
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