Goto_Zuigan
Gotō Zuigan
Buddhist Rinzai Zen master
Gotō Zuigan (後藤 瑞巌, 1879–1965) was a Buddhist Rinzai Zen master[note 1] the chief abbot of Myōshin-ji and Daitoku-ji temples,[3] and a past president of Hanazono University of Kyoto, also known as "Rinzai University."[4][note 2]
Gotō Zuigan | |
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Title | Rōshi |
Personal | |
Born | 1879 |
Died | 1965 |
Religion | Buddhism |
School | Rinzai |
Senior posting | |
Based in | Myōshin-ji Daitoku-ji |
Predecessor | Tetsuo Sōkatsu |
Successor | Oda Sessō Sōkō Morinaga |
Zuigan was influential in the development of Buddhism in America in the early 20th century. He was a student of the Zen master Tetsuo Sōkatsu and followed him to California in 1906 with a group of fourteen who went to the US with Tetsuo Sōkatsu in 1906, attempting strawberry farming in Hayward, California, and founding a branch of Ryomo Kyokai on Sutter Street in San Francisco.[5][note 3]
Zuigan returned to Japan in 1910. In 1916 Sōkatsu bestowed upon him the Inka Shōmei.[note 4] He then spent fifteen years as a missionary in Seoul.[3]
Later, he returned to Japan and taught at the temple Daitoku-ji in Kyoto.[3]
Among Zuigan's notable students were:
- The American religious scholar Huston Smith who studied with Zuigan for fifteen years.[6]
- Pianist Walter Nowick who studied with Zuigan at Daitoku-ji beginning in 1950 until Zuigan's death in 1965.
- Sōkō Morinaga, Nowick's Dharma brother, who wrote in "Novice to Master: An Ongoing Lesson in the Extent of My Own Stupidity", who was also a head of Hanazono University.[7][note 5]
- The Dutch author Janwillem van de Wetering who lived a year and a half in Daitoku-Ji with Nowick under Zuigan's successor Oda Sessō, and described this period of study in the book, "The Empty Mirror: Experiences in a Japanese Zen Monastery."[9]
- Inka Shomei, or Dharma transmission, qualifies one to train students within the Rinzai sect as a Shike (master).
- Bodiford 2008, p. 276.
- Borup 2008, p. 177.
- Stirling 2006, p. 49-50.
- "Rinzai Zen Temple - Our History". Archived from the original on 7 June 2013. Retrieved 21 May 2013.
- Fields 1992, p. 176.
- Stirling 2006, p. 21.
- "The Buddhism Place". Archived from the original on 28 June 2013. Retrieved 21 May 2013.
- Kraft, 20
- Smith, viii
- Levine, 316
- Miura, xvi
- Bodiford, William M. (2008), Dharma Transmission in Theory and Practice. In: Zen Ritual: Studies of Zen Buddhist Theory in Practice (PDF), Oxford University Press[permanent dead link]
- Borup, Jørn (2008), Japanese Rinzai Zen Buddhism: Myōshinji, a Living Religion, Brill
- Fields, Rick (1992), How the Swans Came to the Lake. A Narrative History of Buddhism in America, Boston & London: Shambhala
- Kraft, Kenneth (1988). Zen, Tradition and Transition: A Sourcebook by Contemporary Zen Masters and Scholars. Grove Press. ISBN 0-8021-3162-X.
- Levine, Gregory P.A. (2005). Daitokuji: The Visual Cultures of a Zen Monastery. University of Washington Press. pp. 316. ISBN 0-295-98540-2.
- Miura, Isshu; Ruth Fuller Sasaki (1993). The Zen Koan: Its History and Use in Rinzai Zen. HBJ. ISBN 0-15-699981-1. OCLC 174281293.
- Smith, Houston; Philip Novak (2004). Buddhism: A Concise Introduction. HarperCollins. ISBN 0-06-073067-6.
- Stirling, Isabel (2006), Zen Pioneer: The Life & Works of Ruth Fuller Sasaki, Shoemaker & Hoard, ISBN 978-1-59376-110-3
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