Tetsugen Doko

Tetsugen Doko (Japanese鉄 眼 道光; born February 12, 1630, circle Mashiki the province of Higo, † April 27, 1682 ), was a monk of the Ikko- Shuu, who turned to the Obaku shū. He is probably the best known members of this school. His main work was completed in 1681 delivered the complete Buddhist canon.

  • 2.1 Notes and references

Journey

Tetsugen dokos father named Saeki was the priest ( Shaso ) of the local Hachiman Shrine. When he was 13, Tetsugen ( = Ikko ) was recorded in the nearby temple in the Jodo Shinshu. Soon after, he became a student Saigens ( 1605-63 ), whom he succeeded in 1647 to Kyoto, where he learned at the seminar of the sect for several years. As the seminar was temporarily closed and ruled his teacher because dogmatic disputes arising from the Shinshu, he also broke 1655 this course direction.

Tetsugen left Kyoto and went to Yin Yuan, who, at that time still in Kōfuku -ji, teaching in Nagasaki. As Yin -yuan to Kyoto departed he left Tetsugens to Mu - more education, but not at first wanted to accept him as a student. Later, he was nevertheless accepted. He then studied also under Chi - fe, and was a disciple of all three Chinese founder of the Obaku in Japan. Inca (印 可) as a confirmation of his enlightenment he received 1671st

In social terms, Tetsugen was also äßerst active. When he in 1681 in Edo, where he was to receive the imprimatur for his canon project of the ever more verschlmmernden famine in western Japan heard, returned to his home back in order to collect donations. From Zuiryu -ji from organized relief efforts, in particular, he distributed daily food donations to thousands of needy over several weeks. During contact with this many people be infected Tetsugen and succumbed to the age of 53 a fever.

In his discourses Tetsugen was an advocate of strict monastic discipline, according to the rules of the Vinaya. He attacked again and again to the allowed in the Shinshu practice of marriage by monks. Unlike the other Japanese founding fathers of the school, as Egoku Dōmyō, Ryōkei Shosen and Choon DOKAI he appointed no successor Dharma.

Canon edition

The compiled by Tetsugen output of the entire Sino- Japanese Buddhist canon consists of 6956 fascicles, which were prepared in a wood printing process. The pressure is characterized by the clarity and size of the characters. The basis was the Wan Li Chinese edition of the Ming Dynasty, which was supplemented by Obaku - specific texts. The compilation is alternatively known as Ōbakuban Daizōku or Obaku Tetsugen Issaikyō. The financial resources for the production he collected while traveling from 1669 in sermons in local temples.

Literature and sources

  • Tetsugen Doko: Tetsugen Zenji yuiroku. 1691 (2 fasz; . Xylograph )
  • Joetsu Kyoiku Daigaku Shozo Obaku Tetsugenban Issaikyō mokuroku. Joetsu -shi, 1988
  • Helen Baroni: Obaku Zen. The Emergence of the Third Sect of Zen in Tokugawa Japan. University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu 2000, ISBN 0-8248-2195-5
  • Helen Baroni: Iron Eyes. The Life and Teachings of Zen Master Baku Tetsugen Doko. State University of New York, Albany 2006, ISBN 978-0-7914-6891-3
  • Ramming Martin (ed.): Japan Guide. Berlin 1941, p 595
  • Dieter Schwaller: The Japanese Obaku monk Tetsugen Doko: life, thought, writings. Bern et al 1989 ( Zugl.: Zurich, Univ, Diss, 1987/88. ), ISBN 3-261-03960-4
  • Masumi Shibata, Gaston Renondeau: Le sermon de Tetsugen sur le zen [ Tetsu - gen- zen -ji -na- hō -go ]. Tokyo 1960
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