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Takuan Sōhō 沢庵 宗彭 |
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Born |
Izushi, Tajima province | ||
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Where Taught |
Kyoto | ||
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Teachers |
Sensei Shun-oku Soen. | ||
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Lived |
1573 - 1645 | ||
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One of the most famous Zen Buddhist teachers in Japan who taught amongst others great swordsmen like Yagyu Munenori & Miyamoto Musashi. Takuan Soho was a prelate of the Rin-zai Sect of Zen and well remembered for his strength of character and acerbic wit; and he was also gardener, poet, tea master, prolific author and a pivotal figure in Zen painting and calligraphy. His religious training began at the age of ten. He entered the Rin-zai sect at the age of fourteen and was appointed abbot of the Daitokuji, a major Zen temple in Kyoto, at the age of thirty-five. After a disagreement on ecclesiastical appointments with the second Tokugawa shogun, he was banished in 1629 to a far northern province. Coming under a general amnesty on the death of the shogun, he returned to society three years later to be, among other things, a confidant of the third Tokugawa shogun. Read Takuan Sōhō's Books;-
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