Eisai
Myoan Eisai (Japanese: 明菴栄西, Myōan Eisai) or Main Zen Eisai (Japanese: 栄西禅師, Eisai Zenji) (April 20th 1141 - July 5th 1215) is the founder of the school Rinzaï in Japan which it brought from China in 1191. It would have also brought the The to Japan after this same voyage.
Biography
Myoan Eisai was born in the province from Bitchu (Today province of Okayama), it began its monastic studies in a temple Tendai. Dissatisfied with the state of Buddhism of the time in Japan, it leaves in 1168 to China, where it meets for the first time the Chan (which will become later, in Japan, the Zen). It spends only six months to China at the time of its first voyage but it returns nearly one year in 1187. During this second voyage he becomes the disciple of Xuan Huaichang . After its certification of professor Zen rinzaï, Eisai is returned to Japan in 1191, bringing with him of the Zen writings and seeds of The. It founds immediately the temple of Hoonji in the island of Kyushu, will be the first Zen temple of Japan. Eisai starts to propagate this new faith slowly, trying to gain the respect of the Tendai school and the imperial court by a skilful diplomacy. Confronted with the opposition of the schools traditional of Japanese Buddhism like the Tendai school, Shingon or the school of the pure Ground. Eisai leaves finally Kyoto for the North-East in the town of Kamakura in 1199, where the Shogun and its Samuraïs accommodate with enthusiasm its lesson Zen directed towards the art-martial . Hôjô Masako , the widow of Shogun Minamoto No Yoritomo, gives him the authorization to build the temple Jufukuji , the first Zen center in Kamakura. Eisai died in 1215 at the age of 75. It had among its disciples Dogen who will found the school soto in Japan.
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External bonds
- the Green Cliff - Center Zen Rinzaï
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