Irmgard Schlögl

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Irmgard Schlögl , also Myokyo-ni , (born January 29, 1921 in Leitersdorf im Raabtal ; † March 29, 2007 in Luton ) was a Zen nun in the Japanese Rinzai tradition as well as teacher and director of the Zen centers she founded in London and Luton. She was a translator and author of several books on Zen Buddhism.

Irmgard Myokyo Schlögl

Life

Irmgard Schlögl was born in Siebenaumühle in the municipality of Leitersdorf, in the Feldbach district, with a few hundred inhabitants. After graduating from the Fürstenfeld grammar school , she began studying geology at the University of Graz and graduated with a doctorate. (Phil. Diss. 1943: The pulpit north of Graz and its foothills ). At the beginning of her studies, she met Heinrich Harrer , who aroused her interest in Buddhism. In 1950 she followed a call as a lecturer in mineralogy at Imperial College London , where she met Christmas Humphreys , the founder of the Buddhist Society .

Buddhism

Schlögl familiarized himself with Zen as it was practiced in London in the 1950s and finally went to Japan in 1960 to become one of the first western women to get to know authentic Zen. After six years of Zen training with Oda Sesso and Sojun Kannun in Daitoku-ji , she returned to London for a few months and founded a zazen group in the Buddhist Society in the style of the Japanese Rinzai- Zen. After further years in Daitoku-ji, where she also met Ruth Fuller Sasaki , Irmgard Schlögl finally returned to London in 1972, supervised several Zen groups and finally founded the Zen Center in London in 1979. On July 22, 1984 she was finally ordained a Zen nun by Soko Morinaga Roshi under the name Myokyo-ni. The ceremony was performed at the invitation of Ajahn Sumedho in the Chithurst Forest Monastery. Until 2002 she directed the main temple Shobo-an in St. Johns Wood, the former home of Christmas Humphreys, which he inherited to the Sangha in 1983 when he died. From 2002 to 2007, Myokyo-ni lived a little withdrawn at the Fairlight Zen training center in Luton.

Publications (selection)

  • Irmgard Schlögl: The gentle change of the bull: The ten bull pictures - A spiritual journey , Kristkeitz Verlag, Heidelberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-932337-24-6 .
  • Irmgard Schlögl: Lebendiger Buddhismus , Angkor Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 9783936018691
  • Irmgard Schloegl (Editor): The Wisdom of the Zen Masters (Wisdom Bks.) New Directions Publishing Corporation, New York 1976, ISBN 0-8112-0610-6 ; German The Wisdom of the Zen Masters , Heidelberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-932337-46-8 .
  • Myokyo-ni: The Zen Way , Tuttle Date 1995; Myokyo-ni: What is Zen? History, nature and practice of a great spiritual tradition in the East , translated by Heike Böbel, Barth Verlag, Bern 1995, ISBN 3-502-64520-5 .
  • Myokyo-ni (Irmgard Schlögl): Look and see. Buddhist teaching stories with comments by Ven. Myokyo-ni. Angkor Verlag 2012, ISBN 978-3-936018-29-5 .
  • Myokyo-ni (Irmgard Schlögl): The song of enlightenment: Yoka Daishi's song about the realization of the path, with comments by Ven. Myokyo-ni. Books on Demand 2013, ISBN 978-3-8482-7191-7 .
  • Myokyo-ni (Irmgard Schlögl): The search for wholeness: Instructions for practicing Zen Buddhists , Werner Kristkeitz Verlag 2015, ISBN 978-3-932337-62-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Altstadtladen Feldbach, short biography ( memento of the original from August 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.altstadtladen.at

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personal data
SURNAME Schlögl, Irmgard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schloegl, Irmgard; Myokyo-ni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Zen nun and Zen teacher
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Leitersdorf in the Raabtal
DATE OF DEATH March 29, 2007
Place of death Luton