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普化宗

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Basic Meaning: Fuke shū

Senses:

  • A sub-sect of Rinzai, associated with itinerant former samurai monks called komusō 虛無僧, who wandered the country playing the shakuhachi flute 尺八 and wearing a face obscuring reed hat 天蓋. Traditionally Fukeshū was said to have been established in China during the Tang dynasty by Puhua 普化 and transmitted to Japan by Kakushin 覺心. However, the Fukeshū was probably actually founded during the Tokugawa period (see Sanford). Eventually the sect was banned by government order in 1871. Important texts of to the Fukeshū include the Kyotaku denki 虛鐸傳記.

    References

    Sanford, James H. Winter 1977. “Shakuhachi Zen, The Fukeshū and Komuso.”  Monumenta Nipponica 32 No. 4 : 411–440.

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    [Dictionary References]

    Bukkyō jiten (Ui) 913

    Bulgyo sajeon 307a

    Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.) 1067b

    Iwanami bukkyō jiten 687

    Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary (Daitō shuppansha) 63a/69

    Japanese-English Zen Buddhist Dictionary (Yokoi) 127

    Fo Guang Dictionary 4981

    Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki) (v.1-6)4400a,2969c,3466c

    Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 1516-2

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    Entry created: 2005-03-02

    Updated: 2007-11-29