Tetsuo Sōkatsu

Tetsuo Sōkatsu
Religion	Buddhism
School	Rinzai
Personal
Nationality	Japan
Born	1870
Died	1954
Senior posting
Title	Zen Master
Predecessor	Soyen Shaku
Successor	Gotō Zuigan Koun-an Tatsuta Eizan Roshi Sokei-an Sasaki

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Tetsuo Sōkatsu (1870–1954)^[1] was a Japanese Rinzai-master. He was a dharma heir of Soyen Shaku.^[2]

Biography

Tetsuo Sokatsu received dharma transmission from Soyen Shaku at the age of 29.^[2] There-after he traveled throughout Japan, on "a pilgrimage of great Zen temples".^[3] Sokatsu continued his travels outside Japan for two years, visiting Burma, Ceylon and India, wehere he lived with "barefoot sadhus".^[3]

Soyen Shaku put him in charge of Ryōbō Kai, and gave him the hermitage-name "Ryobo-an".^[2] Sokatsu opened the hermitage for lay-practice, opening up the possibility of dharma transmission to lay practitioners. At the end of World War II Sokatsu closed Ryōbō Kai, but the lay practice was continued by his dharma heir Koun-an Roshi.^[2]

In 1906 Sokatsu went to California^[1] with a group of fourteen students, including Gotō Zuigan and Sokei-an Shigetsu Sasaki. He stayed there for four years, Sokei-an Sasaki being the only one to stay in the USA.^[3]

Dharma heirs

Gotō Zuigan, abbot of Daitoku-ji, teacher of Huston Smith, Walter Nowick
Koun-an Tatsuta Eizan Roshi, founder of Ningen Zen Kyodan^[2]
Sokei-an Sasaki,^[4] husband of Ruth Fuller Sasaki

References

Sources

Dumoulin, Heinrich (2005-B), Zen Buddhism: A History. Volume 2: Japan, World Wisdom Books, ISBN 9780941532907 Check date values in: |date= (help)
Fields, Rick (1992), How the Swans Came to the Lake. A Narrative History of Buddhism in America, Boston & London: Shambhala
Ford, James Ishmael (2006), Zen Master Who?: A Guide to the People And Stories of Zen, Wisdom Publications

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