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 Obaku (school of Buddhism) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Chinese 黃檗; pinyin huang bo) is a Japanese Zen Buddhist school.
It was founded in 1654 when the Chinese monk Yinyuan Longqi and his disciple Muyan, followers of the Linji tradition, went to Japan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obaku_School   (148 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Zen
Obaku was introduced in the 17th century by Ingen, a Chinese monk.
The Kwan Um School of Zen is an umbrella organization for the various Zen centers and groups founded by the Korean Zen master Seung Sahn.
It is the main meditation technique of the Soto school of Zen Buddhism.
http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Zen   (8498 words)

  
 Japanese Buddhism - Encyclopedia
The Satyasiddhi school is considered to be an offshoot of the Sautrantika school, one of the Nikaya schools of Indian Buddhism (see early Buddhist schools).
By 627 there were 46 Buddhist temples, 816 Buddhist priests, and 569 Buddhist nuns in Japan.
However they were not exclusive schools, and temples were apt to have scholars versed in several of the schools.
http://encyclopedia.maksiu.info/wiki/Japanese_Buddhism   (1248 words)

  
 Linji - encyclopedia article about Linji.
Schools and sects There are many divisions and subdivisions of the schools of Buddhism.
Buddhism Buddhism is a religion and philosophy based on the teachings of the Buddha, Siddhārtha Gautama, who lived between approximately 566 and 486 BCE in India.
) was the founder of the Linji school of Chan Chán is a major school of Chinese Mahāyāna Buddhism.
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Linji   (1586 words)

  
 Zen
All Japanese Zen schools reflect the 'sudden enlightenment' Zen philosophy prevalent in China.
Zen means meditation and the central doctrine of Zen is that an individual experience of enlightenment (satori) equivalent to that of the Buddha can be transmitted from master to disciple by meditation or by other means 'outside the scriptures' - i.e.
Apart from a few training monasteries memorial rituals for the dead are the major preoccupation of priests and followers in Zen as in all Buddhist denominations in Japan.
http://philtar.ucsm.ac.uk/encyclopedia/easia/zen.html   (581 words)

  
 Obaku
Obaku Zen: The Emergence of the Third Sect of Zen in Tokugawa Japan
A careful observer of nature, Jakuchu's contact with the Obaku Zen sect of Buddhists who fled their native China in the early seventeenth century was largely responsible for his increased...
calligraphy written vertically by the Zen monk Obaku Kosen (1633-1695).
http://hallencyclopedia.com/Obaku   (378 words)

  
 E-sangha, Buddhist Forum and Buddhism Forum > General Introduction To Japanese Mahayana
The school of esoteric Buddhism was founded by Kukai (Kobo Daishi), 774-835.
In the center of the mandala is the pagoda that is the symbol of the truth of the Buddha (tathagata) in the Lotus Sutra.
The fundamental sutra for this school, the Buddhavatamsaka-sutra (Jap., Kegon-kyo) was politically construed and taken as a confirmation of the ideal of the unity of the state and of the national-political coloration of Japanese Buddhism.
http://www.lioncity.net/buddhism/lofiversion/index.php/t1532.html   (3394 words)

  
 Rinzai school - Wikpedia
Myōan Eisai, founder of the Rinzai School of Zen in Japan, 12th century.
The Japanese Obaku Zen sect is also descended from the Chinese Linji school.
After having faced the opposition of traditional schools of Buddhism in Kyoto, Eisai personally introduced Rinzai Zen to the samurai warrior caste of the Shogun court in Kamakura around 1199.
http://www.bostoncoop.net/~tpryor/wiki/index.php?title=Rinzai_school   (714 words)

  
 BUDDHISM
Zen (Ch'an in Chinese) is a Japanese term meaning "meditation." It is a major school of Japanese Buddhism that claims to transmit the spirit of Buddhism, or the total enlightenment as achieved by the founder of the religion, the Buddha (See Buddha; Buddhism).
The Obaku school is closer to the Rinzai tradition except for its emphasis on invoking the name of Buddha.
The Rinzai school was taken there in 1191 by the priest Enzai (1141-1215), and the Soto tradition arrived in 1227, taken there by Dogen (1200-53), the most revered figure in Japanese Zen.
http://www.uwec.edu/greider/Chinese.Japan/Chinese.buddhism.htm   (1083 words)

  
 Zen
Founder of the Soto Zen school in Japan was the famous Zen master Dogen Zenji (1200 - 1253).
It developed when teachers from India, the original homeland of Buddhism, founded schools in China, where it was known as ch'an (ch'an is the Wade-Giles transliteration of the Sanskrit word dhyana).
The following Zen traditions still exist in Japan: Soto Zen, Rinzai Zen and Obaku.
http://www.icyclopedia.com/encyclopedia/z/ze/zen.html   (1162 words)

  
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Today, Obaku Zen has about 400 temples and 200,000 adherents.
The Chan schools there began forming "Dharma Societies" whose purpose was to ensure the proper support of the temples and monks and the public teachings of Buddhism - sort of a church-like thing.
Also, Obaku is actually Rinzai Zen with some borrowing from Nembutsu.
http://www.dorje.com/netstuff/dharma/buddha06   (13542 words)

  
 Soka Gakkai Dictionary of Buddhism: Ingen
The founder of the Obaku school of Zen in Japan.
He established the Obaku school by incorporating the practice of Nembutsu into the teachings of the Rinzai school of Zen.
Born in China, he entered the Zen (Ch'an) center at Mount Huang-po (Jpn Obaku) in 1620 and studied there under Zen Master Chien-yüan.
http://www.sgi-usa.org/buddhism/library/sgdb/lexicon.cgi?tid=2597   (145 words)

  
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The Japanese Obaku school of Zen is a living example of Pure Land Zen.
Dogen and Eisai of Zen, Honen and Shinran of Pure Realm, and Nichiren of the school bearing his name all began their religious careers in Tendai.
Saicho's role in Buddhist history amounts to nothing short of a new interpretation of Buddhism; and he formulated the first Japanese soteriological exposition of the teaching, practice and attainment of Buddhism.
http://departments.colgate.edu/greatreligions/pages/buddhanet/mahayana325/purestat.txt   (2360 words)

  
 Adherents.com
A Reformed Ritsu School was founded by Eison (1201-1290) on the basis that one can informally vow to live by the Buddhist discipline.
The Rinzai school is one of the two schools of Zen still active in Japan.
At the beginning of the 11th century the Rinzai school split into two lineages, the Rinzai Yogi lineage and the Rinzai Oryo lineage.
http://www.adherents.com/Na/Na_571.html   (4189 words)

  
 Soka Gakkai Dictionary of Buddhism: Obaku school
Since Ingen was trained in the Lin-chi (Rinzai) school, the teachings of the Obaku school are identical with those of the Rinzai school except that they incorporate the Nembutsu, i.e., the invoking of the name of Amida Buddha, and other elements of the Pure Land teachings concerning rebirth in the Pure Land.
One of the three principal schools of Zen in Japan, the other two being the Rinzai and Soto schools.
In 1654 the Chinese priest Yin-yüan came to Japan, where he became known as Ingen.
http://www.sgi-usa.org/buddhism/library/sgdb/lexicon.cgi?tid=1473   (141 words)

  
 artnet.com: Resource Library: Ingen Ryuki
Along with his disciples MOKUAN SHOTO and SOKUHI NYOITSU, he was extolled as one of the Obaku no Sanpitsu (‘Three Brushes of Obaku’), the three principal calligraphers of the Obaku Zen school.
He was a leading southern Chinese Buddhist master who, not long after the end of the Ming period (1368–1644), emigrated to Nagasaki where, in the early 17th century, a community of Chinese merchants had established three Chinese Buddhist temples.
A search for his father, who had disappeared when he was five, brought him at the age of 20 to a temple on Mt Putuo (Zhoushan Archipelago, off the coast of Zhejiang Prov.), where, it is recorded, he served tea to the monks.
http://www.artnet.com/library/04/0412/T041289.asp   (383 words)

  
 Waht's Zen ?"
The founders of the Zen in Japan were the monk Esaï/Esaï/Yôsaï (1141-1215) and Dôgen (on 1200 1253), the first heir of the school Rinzaï, the second of the school Soto.
Certainly, he was not the first one, let us not forget that Jung, Durckheim, Durix and many other initiated precursors practised the Zen of another school (Rinzaï or Obaku), before the come at the end of the 60s.
Certain schools make of zazen their iron of lance, to become bouddhas of it sat; the others laud the Zen on the march, the others more current, even in the steering wheel!
http://www.bouddha.ch/english/zenchan-eng.htm   (2718 words)

  
 Gyokusei Jikihara Sensei
Gyokusei Jikihara, Sensei is a Japanese master of calligraphy and a teacher in the Obaku School of Zen.
http://www.mro.org/zmm/zenarts/jikihara.html   (84 words)

  
 Obaku Zen of BuddhistLinks.org
Obaku Zen: The Emergence of the Third Sect of Zen in Tokugawa Japan by Helen Josephine Baroni
The founder of the Obaku School of Zen Buddhism in Japan, Zen Master Ingen, came to Nagasaki from China in 1654
Obaku (Huang-po in Chinese) preserves elements of the Chinese tradition in its architecture
http://buddhistlinks.org/Obaku.htm   (1515 words)

  
 Akara
Following the establishment of the Obaku (Huang-po) school of Zen at Mampukuji in 1694, a new type of Chinese-style Calligraphy was brought to Japan.
'Human beings are all Buddha' Mokuan, Obaku School, (17th century), Japan
In the 20th century, such monks as Nantembo (1839-1925) and Gempo (1865-1961) have done Calligraphy which parallels that of past masters.
http://www.ignca.nic.in/ex_0002f.htm   (315 words)

  
 Wikipedia: Obaku
Mount Huangbo, a mountain in China's Fujian province, noted for its Buddhist temples;
Obaku 黄檗 Jap.: Ōbaku, Chin.: Huángbò refers to three seperate topics:
http://www.factbook.org/wikipedia/en/o/ob/obaku.html   (54 words)

  
 Obaku : QuicklyFind Info
Ōbaku (黄檗 Japanese Ōbaku, pinyin Huángbò) refers to three seperate topics: # Mount Huangbo, a mountain in China's Fujian province, noted for its Buddhist temples; # Huangbo Xiyun (黄檗希運), a Chinese Chan Buddhist master; and # the Japanese Obaku School of Zen Buddhism.
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http://www.quicklyfind.com/info/Obaku.htm   (67 words)

  
 ipedia.com: List of Buddhist topics Article
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The following is a List of Buddhist topics:
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 Muyan - China-related Topics MU-MZ - China-Related Topics
Together they founded the Obaku (school of Buddhism)Ōbaku school and Mampukuji, the school's head temple at Uji in 1661.
http://www.famouschinese.com/virtual/Muyan   (163 words)

  
 Obaku - Free Encyclopedia
Obaku 黄檗 jap.: Ōbaku, chin.: hu?g-b?stands for two different points:
http://www.wacklepedia.com/o/ob/obaku.html   (10 words)

  
 Obaku
Obaku 黄檗 jap.: Ōbaku, chin.: huáng-bò stands for two different points:
All is still licensed under the GNU FDL.
http://www.wordlookup.net/ob/obaku.html   (279 words)

  
 Ingen Ryuki ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
May 13, 1652 - Ingen Ryuki invited to become the abbot of Sofokuji temple in Nagasaki
Search the Art History Database for artists, titles, media, year, and other indepth information:
http://wwar.com/masters/i/ingen_ryuki.html   (57 words)

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