L. Tenryu Tenbreul

Ludger Tenryu Tenbreul (* 1956 ) is a long-time student of Taisen Deshimaru , the founder of Sōtō Zen in Europe.

After his death he became a student of Narita Shuyu , from whom he received Shiho in 1986 , the transmission of the Dharma in the lineage of Kodo Sawaki . Tenryu Tenbreul is President of the Zen Association Germany eV, founded in 1984 and based in Berlin.

Master Tenryu is Dendokyoshi, a teacher recognized by the Sōtō-Zen school. He teaches in the Mokushozan Jakkoji temple in Schönböken and in the Shogozan Zenkoji in Berlin .

Students of Master Tenryu who have been confirmed as Dendokyoshi by the Sōtō-shu are M. Shudo André (director of the Zen-Dôjô Ryu-Mon in Hamburg), T. Kairyu Quitschau and A. Seihō Woller (director of the Zen-Dojo Mokusho-Do in Münster ).

In 2011 the book "Moon in the middle of autumn" ( ISBN 3-936018-67-7 ) was published, it is a collection of expressions, lectures and Teishos (= oral instruction) by Ludger Tenryu Tenbreul.

literature

• Ludger Tenryu Tenbreul: moon in the middle of autumn. Frankfurt: Angkor Verlag 2011. ISBN 978-3-936018-65-3 (paperback) and ISBN 978-3-936018-67-7 (hardcover).

Web links

• Zen Association Germany
• Zen Association Berlin
• Zen Center Schönböken

Individual evidence

1. ^ Organization and temples outside of Japan (English). (No longer available online.) In: Sozozen-Net. Archived from the original on January 30, 2012 ; Retrieved November 20, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.