Taïkan Jyoji

Taikan Jyoji (actually Georges Frey, born 1941 in France ) is a French Zen master.

He heads the Centre de la Falaise Verte, Saint- Laurent- du- Pape ( Ardèche ), a center of Rinzai Zen tradition.

He went in 1964 as a journalist for the first time to Japan. In 1968 he returned there and was looking in the Zen practice an answer to his questions. His search, he has recorded in a diary, and published as a book " Diary of a Zen master, who came from the West."

Since its official appointment by Yamada Roshi Mumon in 1976, he is the representative of the Zen Rinzai school in Europe.

When he returned from Japan in 1974 to France, he opened his own center of Rinzai Zen tradition.

Quote from " Diary of a Zen master, who came from the West ":

"The heart of Zen practice is the awakening, the profound experience of his own person. "

Publications

• Diary of a Zen master, who came from the West. Benziger Verlag, Zurich 1997, ISBN 3-545-20136-8