ÅŒbaku

The Obaku - Shuu (Japanese黄 檗 宗, dt about "School of Obaku " ) is the third historical and the size of the supporters of the surviving Japanese schools of Zen Buddhism.

History

The Obaku Shuu was founded in 1654 during the Edo period by the Chinese monk Ingen Longqi and his student Mu - on, both the Chinese Linji zong (Chinese临济 宗pinyin Linji Zong, W.-G. Lin -chi tsung ) of the Chan tradition belonged. After Ingen stayed some time in Kōfuku -ji in Nagasaki, he was allowed by the government in 1661, a temple of the branch school Genju -ha (幻 住 派) to restore the Rinzai shū in Uji in Kyoto. This was later the main temple of the Obaku - Shuu: the Mampuku -ji, a replica of the Wànfúsì ( a written with the same kanji temple on Mount Obaku (Chinese Huangbo ) in China).

Muyan released his masterpiece as chief priest at Mampuku -ji from in 1664. He founded seven years later in Shirokane, a district of Edo, the Zuishō -ji (瑞 圣 寺), an important center for the dissemination of Zen teachings in the Kanto region during the Edo period. Other branch temple followed. Currently, claims the Obaku shū that belong to the 500 temples to their tradition.

Yinyuans intention, during the Ming Dynasty to bring contemporary Chinese Chan training to Japan to renew the Japanese Zen, which was introduced to the Kamakura period in the 13th century by Eisai and Dogen and, according to many in was the Tokugawa era of the 17th century was in decline. Not quite by chance he engages in naming back on Huangbo (Japanese Obaku ), the teacher Linjis and thus ancestor of the Linji zong (Jap. Rinzai Shuu ).

The political intentions of the shogunate in promoting Obaku shū for revitalizing the largely concerned only with aesthetic activities Rinzai shū not met with unanimous approval. So was the school until 1876, officially recognized in the decline of the Shogunate as an independent school.

Teaching

Although appealing to Chinese and hence the origin of Zen particularly close roots, is the Obaku teaching as the post- Sung -chan syncretistic and integrates both the practice of the Nembutsu of Amitabha Buddhism as well as mantra and dharani from the Tantric Buddhism. This, together with the emphasis on the Chinese ( the master of the main temple were to the 18th century Chinese, the temple itself was a center of Chinese culture in Japan) were the main characteristics of the Obaku shū and both the reason for the outgoing of her fascination with interested Japanese as well as for sharp criticism from the Rinzai and Soto also the shū.