Oda Sessō
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Template:ZenBuddhism Oda Sessō (小田 雪窓, 1901 – 16 September 1966)[1] was a Rinzai Rōshi and abbot of the Daitoku-ji (大徳寺) 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. His western students included Gary Snyder,[2][3] Janwillem van de Wetering, Irmgard Schloegl, and Philip Yampolsky.
Snyder described him as
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[T]he subtlest and most perceptive man I've ever met....His teisho were inaudible, his voice was so soft. Yet as one of the head monks at Daitoku-ji Sodo said much later, 'Those lectures of Oda Rōshi we couldn't hear I am beginning to hear today.'"[4]
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Alan Watts said,
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[H]aving a conversation with him is like dropping a pebble in a well and never hearing it drop. The soundless pebble in the bottomless well."[5]
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Janwillem van de Wetering gave an account of his stay at Daitoku-ji in his book "The empty mirror".
See also
References
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Sources
- Kraft, Kenneth; Morinaga, Sōkō. Zen, Tradition and Transition (1988) Grove Press. Template:ISBN
- Kyger, Joanne. Strange Big Moon: The Japan and India Journals: 1960-1964 (2000) North Atlantic Books. Template:ISBN
- Snyder, Gary. The Real Work: Interviews & Talks, 1964-1979 (1980) New Directions Publishing. Template:ISBN
- Stirling, Isabel. Zen Pioneer: The Life & Works of Ruth Fuller Sasaki (2006) Shoemaker & Hoard. Template:ISBN
Further reading
- Janwillem van de Wetering, The empty mirror
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