Gidō Shūshin

Gidō Shūshin ( Japanese 義 堂 周 信 , also Kūge dōjin ( 空 華 道人 ); * March 1, 1325 in Nagaoka or Takaoka, Tosa Province (today: Kōchi Prefecture ); † May 10, 1388 ) was a Japanese writer and Buddhist monk .

Life

Gidō came from the influential Taira family. At the age of seventeen he entered the temple Rinsen-ji in Kyoto, where he was a student of the Zen master Muso Soseki . He was unable to take a trip to China planned after his training because of health problems. He continued his training with Ryūzan Kokken at Kennin-ji Temple. In the following years he lived in the temples Enpuku-ji, Zenpuku-ji and Hōn-ji in Kamakura. The Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu called him back to Kyōto, where he was the abbot of the Temples Kennin-ji and Nanzen-ji .

In the collection Jōkan jūwa ruiju sōon renpōshū ( 重 刊 貞 和 類 聚 祖 苑 聯 芳 集 ) Gidō compiled thousands of poems by Zen Buddhist monks from the Song and Yuan dynasties . He also wrote poems himself and is considered an important representative of the five-mountain literature ( 五 山 文学 , Gosan-Bungaku ). In the writing Kūge nichiyō kufū ryakushū ( 空 華 日用 工夫 略 集 ) students of Gidō compiled a biography of their master from his diary entries, supplementary materials and sermons.

source

• Yixuan, Ruth Fuller Sasaki, Thomas Yūhō Kirchner: The record of Linji. University of Hawaii Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-8248-2821-9 , pp. 112 and 397

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 義 堂 周 信 . In: デ ジ タ ル 版 日本人 名 大 辞典 + Plus at kotobank.jp. Kodansha, accessed November 20, 2011 (Japanese). 
2. ↑ 重 刊 貞 和 類 聚 祖 苑 聯 芳 集 10 巻 - Digitized at the National Parliamentary Library

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus, Gidō is the family name, Shūshin the first name.