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淸拙

Pronunciations

Basic Meaning: Qingzhuo

Senses:

  • (1274–1339. ); posthumous title 大鑑禪師. Chinese monk of the Linji school 臨濟宗. Founder of the Japanese Rinzai Seisetsu Branch 淸拙派, sometimes also called Daikan Branch 大鑑派, one of the twenty-four transmissions of Zen 禪宗二十四流 that reached Japan. Came to Japan in 1326. [Michel Mohr]
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    [Dictionary References]

    Bukkyō jiten (Ui) 624

    Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.) 568d-569a

    Nihon bukkyō jinmei jiten 422b-433a

    Japanese-English Zen Buddhist Dictionary (Yokoi) 601

    Index to the Bussho kaisetsu daijiten (Ono) 368



    Entry created: 2005-02-01

    Updated: 2012-02-12