Myokyo-ni

Irmgard Schlögl, also Myokyo -ni ( born January 29, 1921 in Head im Raabtal, † March 29 2007 in Luton) was a Zen nun in the Japanese Rinzai tradition, as well as teacher and director of the justified of her Zen centers in London and Luton. She was a translator and author of several books on Zen Buddhism.

Life

Irmgard Schlögl was born in the Siebenaumühle outside of a few hundred inhabitants comprehensive village community leaders, district field stream. After graduating high school in Fürstenfeld she took at the University of Graz to the study of geology and graduated with a doctorate. (Phil. Diss 1943: " The pulpit north of Graz and its offshoots "). Already at baseline, they also got to know Heinrich Harrer, who had inspired her interest in Buddhism. In 1950 she accepted a position as a lecturer in mineralogy at the Imperial College London, where she learned Christmas Humphreys, the founder of the Buddhist Society know.

Buddhism

Schlögl made ​​himself familiar with the Zen, as practiced in the 1950s in London and in 1960 finally went to Japan to learn about one of the first Western women authentic Zen. After six years of Zen training at Oda Sesso and Sojun Kannun in Daitokuji she returned for several months to London, where he founded the Buddhist Society in a zazen group in the style of Japanese Rinzai Zen. After more years in Daitokuji, where she also Ruth Fuller Sasaki met, Irmgard Schlögl 1972 returned finally to London, supervised several Zen groups and eventually founded 1979, the Zen Centre in London. On July 22, 1984, she was finally consecrated by the name Myokyo -ni Soko Morinaga Roshi for the Zen nun. The ceremony was conducted at the invitation of Ajahn Sumedho in Chithurst Forest Monastery. Until 2002 she was the main temple - Shobo in St. Johns Wood, the former House of Christmas Humphreys, that this 1983, at his death, the Sangha had inherited. From 2002 to 2007 lived Myokyo -ni somewhat withdrawn in Zen training center Fairlight in Luton.

Publications (selection )

• Irmgard Schlögl: The gentle conversion of bulls: The Ten Bull Pictures - A spiritual journey Kristkeitz Verlag, Heidelberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-932337-24-6.
• Irmgard Schlögl: Living Buddhism, Angkor Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 9783936018691
• Myokyo -ni: The Zen Way, Tuttle Date 1995; Myokyo -ni: What is Zen? History, nature and practice of a great spiritual tradition of the East, translated by Heike Böbel, Barth Verlag, Bern 1995, ISBN 3-502-64520-5.