Kogaku Soko

Kogaku Soko (古岳宗亘) (1464 – June 24, 1548) was a Japanese Zen priest and poet. He is known for founding the Daisen-in, a sub-temple of Daitoku-ji, a temple of the Rinzai school of Zen in Buddhism, one of the five most important Zen temples of Kyoto. He was posthumously named Daisho Kokushi. Quotes My final words are these:As I fall I throw all on a high mountain peak -Lo! All creation shatters; thus it isThat I destroy Zen doctrine. Japanese Death Poems. Compiled by Yoel Hoffmann. ISBN 978-0-8048-3179-6 Quotes about Kogaku Soko Sōen played a major role in the tea world as an active tea participant and as a powerful abbot of several Zen temples around the Kansai, though he is primarily associated with Daitokuji. Like the Daitokuji priest Kogaku Sōkō (1465–1548) before him, Soen was particularly active as a bridge between Kyoto, and its large community of tea practitioners, and Sakai, the merchant city south of present-day Osaka that gave birth to the new breed of sixteenth-century tea masters. Morgan Pitelka. Japanese Tea Culture: Art, History and Practice. 2013. p. Kogaku Soko was granted the title Busshin Seito Zenji in 1522 (Daiei 2) by Emperor Go-Shirakawa, and was also granted the title Shobo Daisho Kokushi in 1536 (Tenmon 5) by Emperor Go-Nara. "Daisen-In Zen Temple," at b-model.net/daisen-in/syokai.htm, 2018. (pnline here) Category:Poets from Japan Category:1464 births Category:1548 deaths Category:Zen Buddhist monks Category:Buddhists from Japan