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当山勧請開山卓洲胡僊禅師

卓洲胡僊 Takujū Kosen (1760–1833)

aka 大道円鑑禅師 Daidō Enkan zenji

Takujû Kosen (1760–1833)

Japanese Rinzai monk of the Tokugawa period (1600–1867) who is regarded as the founder of the Takujû school of Japanese Zen. Takujû was the Dharma heir of Gasan Jitô (1727–1348), a leading disciple of the reformer Hakuin Ekaku (1685–1768). He and his Dharma brother Inzan Ien (1751–1814) are credited with completing the process of systematizing kôan practice within the Rinzai sect. Takujû was born in Tsushima, near the city of Nagoya. He became a Buddhist monk at Sôken-ji in Nagoya at age fifteen and began a pilgrimage looking for a suitable master at age nineteen. He visited Gasan at Tôki-an and decided to join his assembly. Takujû requested permission to live separately and to be relieved of all of his monastic duties in order to concentrate exclusively on meditation. His request granted, he attained kenshô in a matter of ninety days. He then resumed his normal duties and practiced under Gasan for fourteen years. Gasan acknowledged him as a Dharma heir. Takujû then returned to his home temple Sôken-ji where he lived quietly for twenty years. He was appointed abbot at Myôshin-ji in 1813 and received a purple robe. This spread his reputation and he gathered a community of disciples at Sôken-ji. He also attracted many lay believers . He is especially known for the quality of his lectures on the Zen corpus. He received the posthumous name Daidô Enkan Zenji (Zen Master Round Mirror of the Great Way).

Takujû School

One of two major forms of Japanese Rinzai Zen founded by Takujû Kosen (1760–1833), a second generation descendent of Hakuin Ekaku (1685–1768). All active lineages of Rinzai Zen in Japan today descend from either the Takujû or the Inzan schools. The teaching methods and Zen style of the two schools are nearly identical. Together they encompass what is often known as “Hakuin Zen.”

 

Takujū's Dharma Lineage

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白隱慧鶴 Hakuin Ekaku (1686-1769)
峨山慈棹 Gasan Jitō (1727-1797)
卓洲胡僊 Takujū Kosen (1760-1833) aka 大道円鑑禅師 Daidō Enkan zenji
蘇山玄喬 Sosan Genkyō (1798-1868) aka 神機妙用禅師 Jinki Myōyō zenji

 

 

TAKUJU KOSEN
Richard Bryan McDaniel: Zen Masters of Japan. The Second Step East. Rutland, Vermont: Tuttle Publishing, 2013.

Takuju Kosen was twenty years old when he came to study with Gasan. The master assigned him Joshu’s Mu!, and the young man threw himself into the practice. He requested permission to retire from the monastic community to a hermitage in order to dedicate all of his time to the koan. He practiced with such fervor that at one point he went for more than two weeks without either food or sleep. As a result of his efforts, he was able to attain kensho within ninety days.

After completing his training with Gasan, Takuju spent another twenty years in further solitude, deepening and integrating his understanding. Then he succeeded Inzan as abbot of Myoshinji.

 

Both Inzan and Takuju were effective teachers, but what commentators—such as the American Zen teacher Bernie Glassman—note was the difference in their personalities:

Inzan and Takuju had completely different personalities. Inzan was vigorous, very dynamic; Takuju was meticulous, very careful in his study. And thus two koan systems developed, having the characteristics of each teacher: one very dynamic, and one system requiring you to be very meticulous in examining all elements of each point of a koan.

 

The majority of Rinzai teachers today are direct Dharma descendants of one or the other of these two men, making use of the different approaches Inzan and Takuju took to koan study.

 

達磨図 Daruma by Takujū Kosen

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Dharma Lineage
https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takuj%C5%AB_Kosen

  • 71/44/17. Suigan Bunshu (1810-1874)
  • 72/45/18. Kanshū Gensei
  • 73/46/19. Yūzen Gentatsu (Sanshō-ken 'Three Lives Hut', 1842-1918)
 

Takuju Kosen, Daido Enkan (1760-1833)
http://www.ciolek.com/wwwvlpages/zenpages/hakuin.html