Egoku Domyo Explained

Egoku Dōmyō
Native Name Lang:	ja
Birth Date:	1632
Birth Place:	Japan
Nationality:	Japanese
Religion:	Zen Buddhism
School:	Ōbaku
Priest

Egoku Dōmyō (1632–1721) was an Ōbaku priest, ordained at the age of nine into the Rinzai sect. In 1650, he met Tao-che—the Abbot of Sofuku-ji—in Nagasaki, Japan and subsequently joined his temple. Later he joined the assembly at Mampuku-ji in 1663, following the death of Tao-che. There he trained under his master's teacher Yin-Yuan and his disciple, Mu-an. He was ordained an Obaku monk in 1665 at the temple, receiving inka from Mu-an—Mu-an's second Dharma transmission. He founded and/or restored some twelve temples after receiving inka, and in 1687 served as Abbot at Zuisho-ji. He made forty-two Dharma heirs during his life.^{[1] [2]}

References

• Book: Baroni, Helen Josephine. Obaku Zen: The Emergence of the Third Sect of Zen in Tokugawa, Japan. University of Hawaii Press. 2000. 0-8248-2243-9.
• Book: Heine, Steven. Steven Heine

. Steven Heine. Dale S. Wright. The Koan: Texts and Contexts in Zen Buddhism. Oxford University Press. 2000. 0-19-511748-4.

Notes and References

1. Baroni, 79-80
2. Heine, 256