Koun Ejo
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 152 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5142-6669-2
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Koun Ejo (?????) was the second patriarch of the Japanese Soto school of Zen Buddhism who lived during the Kamakura period. He was initially a disciple of the short-lived Darumashu sect of Japanese Zen founded by Nonin, but later studied and received dharma transmission under the Soto schools founder Dogen Today Ejo is considered Dogen's spiritual successor by all existing branches of the Soto school. He is remembered today primarily as the author of the Shobogenzo Zuimonki, a collection of informal talks by Dogen which Ejo recorded throughout his discipleship. He is also featured prominently in the Denkoroku, the first major piece of scripture produced in the Soto school after Dogen, with his transmission story serving as the final koan. After Dogen's death, Ejo struggled to maintain leadership of the new Eihei-ji monastery, due in part to his lack of training in China that prevented him from completing the temple as a Chinese-style...