Gotō Zuigan

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Template otherTemplate:Wikidata imageTemplate:Compare Template:Family name hatnote Template:ZenBuddhism was a Buddhist Rinzai Zen masterTemplate:Refn the chief abbot of Myōshin-ji and Daitoku-ji temples,Template:Sfn and a past president of Hanazono University of Kyoto, also known as "Rinzai University."Template:Refn

Biography

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 United States with Tetsuo Sōkatsu in 1906, attempting strawberry farming in Hayward, California, and founding a branch of Ryomo Kyokai on Sutter Street in San Francisco.Template:SfnTemplate:Refn

Zuigan returned to Japan in 1910. In 1916, Sōkatsu bestowed upon him the Inka Shōmei.Template:Refn He then spent fifteen years as a missionary in Seoul.Template:Sfn

Later, he returned to Japan and taught at the temple Daitoku-ji in Kyoto.Template:Sfn

Notable students

Among Zuigan's notable students were:

• The American religious scholar Huston Smith who studied with Zuigan for fifteen years.Template:Sfn
• 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.Template:Refn
• 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."

Dharma heirs

• Oda Sessō

See also

• Buddhism in Japan
• List of Rinzai Buddhists

Sources

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