Keizan Jōkin
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Keizan Jōkin (瑩山紹瑾) (1268–1325). A Japanese Zen master and putative second patriarch of the Soto Zen tradition.[1][2]
Keizan was a fourth generation dharma heir of Dōgen, the founder of the Soto Zen lineage in Japan.
The Digital Dictionary of Buddhism states:
- Keizan became a monk at Eihei-ji 永平寺 at age 13. At age 32 he received Dharma transmission from Tettsū Gikai 徹通義介 (1219–1309), an heir to Dōgenʼs lineage who had converted Daijō Monastery 大乘寺 in Kaga (modern Ishikawa Prefecture) into a Chinese style Zen monastery.
- Keizan later succeeded Gikai as abbot of Daijōji and turned it into a major center of Sōtō Zen proselytizing in the region. He also founded or rebuilt a number of other monasteries that were to become instrumental in the spread of Sōtō Zen all around Japan: Jōjūji 淨住寺, Yōkōji 永光寺, and Sōjiji 總持寺. The great majority of Sōtō clergy in Japan today trace their lineages of dharma inheritance back to Keizan (and through him to Dōgen).
- Keizanʼs most influential writings include: Admonitions for Zazen (Zazen yōjin ki 坐禪用心記), Record of the Transmission of the Light (Denkōroku 傳光錄), and Keizanʼs Rules of Purity (Keizan shingi 瑩山淸規). [Griffith Foulk][1]
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1
瑩山紹瑾 Keizan Jōkin, Digital Dictionary of Buddhism (to sign in, see DDB sign-in)
- ↑ Robert E. Buswell Jr., Donald S. Lopez Jr., The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism (Princeton: 2014), s.v. Keizan Jōkin
Further reading
Keizan, Wikipedia- Great Master Keizan Jōkin: His Life and Legacy, Berwyn Watson
- Keizan Jōkin, terebess.hu
