List of Rinzai Buddhists
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- Shikkii Kairyo
- Shinchi Kakushin
- Katsube KeigakuKatsube KeigakuKatsube Keigaku was a Zen Buddhist Roshi in the Japanese Rinzai tradition whom resided over Kogaku-ji in Japan .-See also:*Buddhism in Japan*List of Rinzai Buddhists...
- Koho Ken’nichi
- Imakita KosenImakita Kosenwas a Japanese Rinzai Zen rōshi and Neo-Confucianist. As one-time head abbot of Engakuji in Kamakura, Japan, he was known as a government loyalist and is remembered for his support of Emperor Meiji—in the 1870s serving as Doctrinal Instructor for the Ministry of Doctrine. He did his Zen training...
- Kurt Kankan SpellmeyerKurt Kankan SpellmeyerKurt Spellmeyer is a Zen teacher and professor in the English Department at Rutgers University.Zen LineageKurt Spellmeyer, Kankan Roshi, Trained with Takabayashi Genki and Kangan Glenn Webb, founders of the Seattle Zen Center. In 1985, Spellmeyer completed his training under Webb Roshi and was...
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- Genjo MarinelloDai Bai Zan Cho Bo Zen JiDai Bai Zan Cho Bo Zen Ji is a Rinzai-style Zen temple,located on North Beacon Hill in Seattle, Washington. Its name translates from Japanese as "Listening to the Dharma Zen Temple on Great Plum Mountain."-History, lineage, and teachers:...
- Soko MorinagaSoko Morinagawas a Rinzai Zen roshi. He was head of Hanazono University and abbot of Daishu-in in Kyoto, one of the twenty-four sub-temples of the Daitoku-ji temple complex....
- Denko MortensenEgely MonasteryEgely Monastery - Taikyo-ji is a Buddhist monastery, formerly in the Rinzai Zen tradition, founded by Denko John Mortensen on the Danish island of Bornholm in 2007...
- Shun’oku Myoha
- Chuho Myohon
- Jiun Myoi
- Myokyo-ni
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- Kyozan Joshu SasakiKyozan Joshu SasakiKyozan Joshu Sasaki , Roshi is a Japanese Rinzai Zen teacher who has lived in the United States since 1962. Joshu Sasaki is the founder and head abbot of the Mount Baldy Zen Center, near Mount Baldy in California, and of the Rinzai-Ji order of affiliated Zen centers. As of , he is still actively...
- SengaiSengaiwas a Japanese monk of the Rinzai school . He was known for his controversial teachings and writings, as well as for his lighthearted sumi-e paintings...
- Nyogen SenzakiNyogen SenzakiNyogen Senzaki was a Rinzai Zen monk who was one of the 20th century's leading proponents of Zen Buddhism in the United States.-Early life:...
- Oda SessoOda SessoOda Sessō was a Rinzai Rōshi and abbot of the Daitoku-ji in Kyoto, Japan, a Dharma successor of Gotō Zuigan. He was elected abbot of Daitoku-ji upon Goto's retirement from that post in 1955. At Goto's request, Oda opened Daitoku-ji to foreigners...
- Soyen ShakuSoyen ShakuSoyen Shaku was the first Zen Buddhist master to teach in the United States. He was a Roshi of the Rinzai school and was abbot of both Kencho-ji and Engaku-ji temples in Kamakura, Japan...
- Eido Tai ShimanoEido Tai Shimanois a Rinzai Zen Buddhist roshi. He was the founding abbot of the New York Zendo Shobo-Ji in Manhattan and Dai Bosatsu Zendo Kongo-Ji monastery in the Catskill mountains of New York; he retired from that position after 40 years amid controversy.-Biography:...
- Kokan ShirenKokan ShirenKokan Shiren , 1278–1347), Japanese Rinzai Zen patriarch and celebrated poet in Chinese, was the son of an officer of the palace guard and a mother of the aristocratic Minamoto clan. At age eight he was placed in the charge of the Buddhist priest Hōkaku on Mt. Hiei. At age ten he was ordained...
- Seisetsu Shucho
- Settei Shukuyo
- Guchu Shukyu
- Mugaku Sogen
- Kao Sonen
- Sekko Soshin
- Nippo Soshun
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- Sokei-anSokei-anSokei-an Shigetsu Sasaki , born Yeita Sasaki, was a Japanese Rinzai roshi who founded the Buddhist Society of America in New York City in 1930. Influential in the growth of Zen Buddhism in the United States, Sokei-an was one of the first Japanese masters to live and teach in America...
- Muso SosekiMuso Sosekiwas a Rinzai Zen Buddhist monk and teacher, and a calligraphist, poet and garden designer. The most famous monk of his time, he is also known as , a posthumous name given him by Emperor Go-Daigo...
- Ishin SudenIshin Sudenalso known as Konchiin Sūden, was a Zen Rinzai monk and advisor to Tokugawa Ieyasu, and later to Tokugawa Hidetada and Iemitsu on religious matters and foreign affairs...
- Daisetz Teitaro SuzukiDaisetz Teitaro SuzukiDaisetsu Teitaro Suzuki was a Japanese author of books and essays on Buddhism, Zen and Shin that were instrumental in spreading interest in both Zen and Shin to the West. Suzuki was also a prolific translator of Chinese, Japanese, and Sanskrit literature...
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- Takuan SōhōTakuan Sohowas a major figure in the Rinzai school of Zen Buddhism.Takuan Sōhō was born into a family of farmers in the town of Izushi, located in what was at that time called Tajima province . At the age of 8 in 1581 young Takuan began his religious studies and 2 years later he entered a Buddhist monastery...
- Genki TakabayashiDai Bai Zan Cho Bo Zen JiDai Bai Zan Cho Bo Zen Ji is a Rinzai-style Zen temple,located on North Beacon Hill in Seattle, Washington. Its name translates from Japanese as "Listening to the Dharma Zen Temple on Great Plum Mountain."-History, lineage, and teachers:...
- Yakuo Tokken
- Bassui TokushōBassui Tokushowas a Rinzai Zen Master born in modern day Kanagawa Prefecture who had trained with Sōtō, Rinzai and Ch'an masters of his time. Bassui was unhappy with the state of Zen practice in Japan during his time, so he set out in life with the mission of revitalizing it. The problems he saw were really two...
- Sesshu ToyoSesshu Toyowas the most prominent Japanese master of ink and wash painting from the middle Muromachi period. He was born into the samurai Oda family , then brought up and educated to become a Rinzai Zen Buddhist priest...
- Fumio ToyodaFumio ToyodaFumio Toyoda, was a Japanese aikido teacher and lay Zen master who taught extensively in the United States and Europe....