Gidō Shūshin

Gido SHUSHIN (Japanese义 堂 周 信, also kuge Dōjin (空 华 道人), born March 1, 1325 in Nagaoka or Takaoka, Tosa Province (now Kōchi ) Prefecture, † May 10, 1388 ) was a Japanese author and Buddhist monk.

Life

Gido came from the influential Taira family. The age of seventeen he entered the temple rinsing -ji one in Kyoto, where he was a student of Zen Master Musō Soseki. A planned trip to China after completing his education, he could not compete because of health problems. He continued his education at Ryuzan cocci in the temple Kennin -ji. In the following years he lived in the nearby temples in Kamakura Enpuku -ji, Zenpuku -ji -ji and Hon. The Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu called him back to Kyoto, where he served as abbot of the temple Kennin -ji and Nanzenji.

In the Jokan Juwa ruiju SOON renpōshū Collection (重 刊 贞 和 类 聚 祖 苑 联 芳 集) compiled Gido thousands of poems zenbuddhistischer monks from the Song and Yuan Dynasty. He authored poems and is considered an important representative of the Five Mountains literature (五 山 文学, Gozan - Bungaku ). In Scripture kuge Nichiyo kufu ryakushū (空 华 日用 工夫 略 集) Gidoš students presented a biography of her master from his diary notes, supplementary materials and sermons together.

Source

• Yixuan, Ruth Fuller Sasaki, Thomas yuho Kirchner: "The record of Linji ," University of Hawaii Press, 2009, ISBN 9780824828219, pp. 112 and 397