Gotō Zuigan

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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]}

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 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]

Notable students[]

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]

Dharma heirs[]

• Oda Sessō^{[10][11][12][13]}
• Sōkō Morinaga^{[10][11][12][13]}

See also[]

• Buddhism in Japan
• List of Rinzai Buddhists

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