The Zen Record

Yasutani Hakuun安谷白雲

Born
1885
Died
1973
Teacher
Harada Daiun Sogaku (transmission)
Dharma heirs
Hakuyū Taizan Maezumi (inka)Yamada Kōun
School
Sanbō Zen

Harada’s heir. Founded the Sanbō Kyōdan in 1954 as a lay-oriented organisation outside the Sōtō institution, and taught in the United States from 1962.

Related people

Sources

  • Sanbôzen 三宝禅, Short History of the SANBÔZEN, sections “The First Abbot” and “The Second Abbot” (Japanese version: https://ssl.sanbo-zen.org/histry_j.html, 三宝禅略歴) · link
  • National Diet Library, Japan, Web NDL Authorities: 安谷白雲, ndlna 00095745 · link
  • Robert H. Sharf, Sanbōkyōdan: Zen and the Way of the New Religions (1995), Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 22/3–4, pp. 417–458 · link
  • James Ishmael Ford, Zen Master Who? A Guide to the People and Stories of Zen (2006)

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