Tettsū Gikai (徹通義介) is the third spiritual leader of the Sōtō Zen school of Buddhism in Japan. He began his Buddhist life as a student of the Darumashū's...
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of Daruma School under Kakuzen Ekan. Along with his fellow students Tettsū Gikai and Gien, Giin became a student of Dōgen when Giin's teacher Ekan himself...
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"non-backsliding" while training with Jakuen, and received dharma transmission from Tettsū Gikai at the age of thirty-two. All of this was recorded in his autobiography;...
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And Tettsū Gikai, the dharma-grandson of Dogen, was also lineage-holder of Nōnin, the founder of the Dharuma-shu, also a Rinzai-school. Gikai passed...
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in Persia ceases as a result of the Mongol conquests. February 18 – Tettsū Gikai, Japanese Zen Master (d. 1309) April 5 – Wonjong of Goryeo, Korean ruler...
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Frederick VII, German nobleman (House of Hohenzollern) October 18 – Tettsū Gikai, Japanese monk and Zen Master (b. 1219) Michael Jones, The New Cambridge...
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Keizan's teacher, Tettsū Gikai, remained abbot of Daijōji until 1298, when the abbotship passed to Keizan. Though retired, Gikai remained at Daijōji...
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successor. Dōgen had clearly considered Tettsū Gikai a preeminent disciple, which Ejō well knew. However, he disliked Gikai's desire to reintroduce aspects of...
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And Tettsū Gikai, the dharma-grandson of Dogen, was also lineage-holder of Nōnin, the founder of the Dharuma-shu, also a Rinzai-school. Gikai passed...
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disciples became Dōgen's students at Kōshō-ji. Ekan's disciples included Tettsū Gikai, Gien, Giun, and Giin, all of whom would come to be important people...
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(actually fourth) abbot of Eihei-ji, but received dharma transmission from Tettsū Gikai, the disputed third abbot of Enheiji. According to Keizan's Denkoroku...
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Frederick VII, German nobleman (House of Hohenzollern) October 18 – Tettsū Gikai, Japanese monk and Zen Master (b. 1219) Július Bartl; Dusan Skvarna (2002)...
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Yolande of Brittany, French noblewoman (d. 1272) 1219 February 18 – Tettsū Gikai, Japanese Zen Master (d. 1309) April 5 – Wonjong of Goryeo, Korean ruler...
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eventually they dispersed to study with Dōgen or Eisai. In fact, Koun Ejō and Tettsū Gikai, both prominent students of Dōgen to whom nearly all modern Soto Zen...
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his sense of propriety, Keizan, the 54th ancestor, omitted himself and Tettsu Gikai, one of his teachers who was a student of Ejō and was still alive in...
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