Butsuju Myōzen仏樹明全
1184–1225Rinzai
- Born
- 1184
- Died
- 1225
- Teacher
- Myōan Eisai (transmission)
- School
- Rinzai
Eisai’s student at Kennin-ji and Dōgen’s teacher there from 1217. He took Dōgen to China in 1223 and died there in 1225.
Sources
- Dōgen, Shōbōgenzō 正法眼藏 (1231–1253), Taishō T.2582 · link
- Keizan Jōkin, Denkōroku 伝光録 (c. 1300), Taishō T.2585 · link
- Sōtōshū Shūmuchō, Record of the Transmission of Illumination by the Great Ancestor, Zen Master Keizan (2017), translators’ notes, by chapter · link
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