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    Soyen Shaku (釈 宗演, January 10, 1860 – October 29, 1919; written in modern Japanese Shaku Sōen or Kōgaku Shaku Sōen) was the first Zen Buddhist master...
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    also mean "Greatly Clumsy", was given to him by his Zen master Soen (or Soyen) Shaku. Although his birthplace no longer exists, a humble monument marks its...
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  • teachings, to the American public. Japanese Rinzai was represented by Soyen Shaku, the teacher of D.T. Suzuki. Other Buddhist delegates included Zenshiro...
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    west. Kosen's Dharma heir Soyen Shaku participated in the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago, which introduced Soyen Shaku's student D. T. Suzuki to...
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  • to Kamakura to Engaku-ji where he studied Zen under Rinzai master Soyen Shaku. Soyen was a strict teacher who was very harsh and physical in his training...
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    which perfection cannot be precisely determined. The Reverend Zen Master Soyen Shaku was the first Zen Buddhist Abbot to tour the United States in 1905–6...
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  • Western audience were Anagarika Dharmapala and Soyen Shaku in 1893 at The World Congress of Religion. Shaku's student D.T. Suzuki was a prolific writer, fluent...
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    lectured and taught briefly. Soyen Shaku assigned responsibility for this lay Zen institute to his heir, Sokatsu Shaku. The First Zen Institute's founder...
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  • Strauss declared himself a Buddhist following talks by Buddhist delegates Soyen Shaku and Anagarika Dharmapala. After Zen's rise in popularity with the Beat...
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    Buddhism", the term applied at that time to the Theravada.[citation needed] Soyen Shaku, the "First American Ancestor" of Zen, attended from Japan. An essay...
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  • Barrows and Paul Carus. The Japanese delegation included the priest Soyen Shaku, the layman Zenshiro Nogushi, four priests and two laymen, representing...
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    completely displaced until the early 20th century: scholars such as Soyen Shaku and Seki Seisetsu [ja] who travelled to India for pilgrimages to Buddhist...
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  • Rinzai-master. He was a dharma heir of Soyen Shaku. Tetsuo Sokatsu received dharma transmission from Soyen Shaku at the age of 29. There-after he traveled...
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    first became aware of Zen as a distinct form of Buddhism, the visit of Soyen Shaku, a Japanese Zen monk, to Chicago during the World Parliament of Religions...
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    to mention the Baháʼí Faith in the United States. Also attending were Soyen Shaku, the "First American Ancestor" of Zen, the Theravāda Buddhist preacher...
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    delegates, including the Zen master Soyen Shaku and the Sri Lankan Buddhist revivalist Anagarika Dharmapala. Shaku contrasted the idea of karma as a principle...
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    Chuanyin Traditional Zen Dōgen Hakuin Ekaku Modern Rinzai Imakita Kosen Soyen Shaku Sokei-an D. T. Suzuki Soen Nakagawa Keido Fukushima Modern Sōtō Kōdō...
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    first became aware of Zen as a distinct form of Buddhism, the visit of Soyen Shaku, a Japanese Zen monk, to Chicago during the World Parliament of Religions...
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  • or "Shakyamuni True Way Society", founded by Kōnen Shaku (1849–1924), a student of Soyen Shaku. McRae 2003, p. 4-5. McRae 2003, p. 5. Dumoulin 1993...
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    first became aware of Chan as a distinct form of Buddhism, the visit of Soyen Shaku, a Japanese Zen monk, to Chicago during the 1893 Parliament of the World's...
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    in school he began his study of Rinzai Zen under Sokatsu Shaku, (a Dharma heir of Soyen Shaku), graduating from the academy in 1905. Following graduation...
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    Baha ... [toured] the US teaching the principles of Bahai [sic], and Soyen Shaku toured in 1907 teaching Zen...: 4  More recently, in the 1960s, another...
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    ensuing Russo-Japanese War and wrote to the Japanese Buddhist priest Soyen Shaku in a failed attempt to make a joint pacifist statement. Towards the end...
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    or "Shakyamuni True Way Society", founded by Kōnen Shaku (1849-1924), a student of Soyen Shaku. Jaffe 1979. Ford 2006, p. 150. Kapleau 1989, p. 30....
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  • study with Nyogen Senzaki, a disciple of the Rinzai Zen Buddhist Abbot Soyen Shaku. The practices and tenets of both Sufism and Zen continued to influence...
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  • Buddhism in the United States. Dates with "?" are approximate. 1893: Soyen Shaku comes to the United States to lecture at the World Parliament of Religions...
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  • Sawaki (1880–1965) Nyogen Senzaki (1876–1958) Oda Sessō (1901–1966) Soyen Shaku (1859–1919) Zenkei Shibayama (1894–1974) Eido Tai Shimano (1932–2018)...
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    Suzuki, and fostering a lifelong working friendship with Buddhist Master, Soyen Shaku. Carus' interest in Asian religions seems to have intensified after he...
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  • Soto Zen Buddhist Association Southern, Eastern and Northern Buddhism Soyen Shaku Soyu Matsuoka Sravaka Sri Kalyani Yogasrama Samstha Sri Maha Bodhi Sri...
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    chief centre for Zen instruction in the Kantō region; Imakita Kōsen and Soyen Shaku were successively abbots in this period, and Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki was...
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