Taisen Deshimaru

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Taisen Deshimaru (Netherlands, 1967)

Mokudō Taisen Deshimaru Rōshi ( Japanese 弟子 丸 泰 仙 , Deshimaru Taisen ; born November 29, 1914 in Saga Prefecture ; † April 30, 1982 also in Japan ) was a Japanese Zen master in the Sōtō line and a student of Kodo Sawaki ( 1880–1965), one of the most influential Japanese Zen masters of the 20th century.

Deshimaru received the ordination of monks from Kodo Sawaki in 1965 and set out on a journey to Europe on the Trans-Siberian Railway in 1967. He settled in Paris and in a short time gathered a crowd of followers with whom he very successfully began the spread of Zen Buddhism in Europe. Numerous new Zen groups emerged who practiced the practice of zazen ( Shikantaza : only concentrated sitting ).

In 1970 Taisen Deshimaru founded the Association Zen Internationale (AZI). In the 1970s he received Shiho from Master Yamada Reirin , the then director of the Eihei-ji Temple in Japan, and became Kaikyosokan of Sōtō-Zen in Europe. In 1979 he founded the first Zen temple in Europe " La Gendronnière ", where nowadays many people regularly take part in Sesshin , which are intensive meditation exercises lasting several days .

Sculpture Deshimarus in Toulouse.

Deshimaru died on April 30, 1982 in Japan.

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Taisen Deshimaru (1914-1982) - biography

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  1. Taisen Deshimaru-Rōshi: The voice of the valley . Ed .: Phillipe Coupey. 2nd Edition. Kristeitz, Heidelberg-Leimen 2013, ISBN 978-3-921508-18-3 , p. 183 .