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...

1267 Ejō retired as Abbot of Eihei-ji, giving way to Gikai, who was already favored by Dogen. Gikai too originally was a member of the Daruma school, but...

"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;...

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...

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...

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...

successor. Dōgen had clearly considered Tettsū Gikai a preeminent disciple, which Ejō well knew. However, he disliked Gikai's desire to reintroduce aspects of...

Keizan's teacher, Tettsū Gikai, remained abbot of Daijōji until 1298, when the abbotship passed to Keizan. Though retired, Gikai remained at Daijōji...

Frederick VII, German nobleman (House of Hohenzollern) October 18 – Tettsū Gikai, Japanese monk and Zen Master (b. 1219) Michael Jones, The New Cambridge...

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...

(actually fourth) abbot of Eihei-ji, but received dharma transmission from Tettsū Gikai, the disputed third abbot of Enheiji. According to Keizan's Denkoroku...

Frederick VII, German nobleman (House of Hohenzollern) October 18 – Tettsū Gikai, Japanese monk and Zen Master (b. 1219) Július Bartl; Dusan Skvarna (2002)...

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...

Yolande of Brittany, French noblewoman (d. 1272) 1219 February 18 – Tettsū Gikai, Japanese Zen Master (d. 1309) April 5 – Wonjong of Goryeo, Korean ruler...

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...

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...