Yanagida Seizan
Yanagida Seizan ( Japanese 柳 田 聖山 , Yanagida Seizan ; born December 19, 1922 in the village of Inae in Shiga Prefecture ; † November 8, 2006 ) was one of the most important Japanese Buddhologists of the twentieth century. He was a leader in the study of Chinese Zen ( Chan ).
Yanagida was born in 1922 as the son of a Zen priest in a temple of the Rinzai School. In 1942 he graduated from the Rinzai Technical School (today's Hanazono School) in Hikone . He then practiced Zen Buddhism in Eigen-ji , the main temple of the Eigen-ji lineage of Rinzai Zen . In 1948 he graduated from Ōtani University in Kyōto and held first lectures at Hanazono University Kyoto . In 1949 he became an assistant, in 1950 a lecturer and in 1954 an assistant professor. In 1955 he took off his robes as a monk of the Rinzai School as a protest against the attitude of the Rinzai School during and after World War II . In 1960, Yanagida became a professor at the Institute for Buddhist Studies at Hanazono University in Kyoto . In 1968 he became head of the Institute for Literature there. In 1976 he was appointed professor at the University of Kyoto. In 1986 he retired and founded the IRIZ ( International Research Institute for Zen Buddhism ) at Hanazono University , where he continued his research until 1996 and trained and supported numerous Western scientists, including Urs App , Carl Bielefeldt , Bernard Faure , John R. McRae , Michel Mohr , Christian Wittern , and others.
Yanagida has received many awards and honors for his research, including the Yomiuri Literature Prize in 1981 for a book on Ikkyū Sōjun and the Order of the Sacred Treasure 'Isao Rank 3' in 1996 .
He had a deep love for the Japanese Zen monk and poet Ryōkan (1758–1831).
Web links
- Seizan Yanagida, Urs App: Passion for Zen (PDF, 0.36 MB, 36 pages).
- Urs App et al .: In memory of Prof. Yanagida Seizan (PDF, 1.4 MB, 73 pages).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b 柳 田 聖山 . In: デ ジ タ ル 版 日本人 名 大 辞典 + Plus at kotobank.jp. Retrieved November 21, 2014 (Japanese).
- ↑ Bernhard Schiekel: Seizan Yanagida in memory .
- ^ Brian Victoria, Zen, Nationalismus und Krieg, Theseus Verlag, 1999, p. 232
- ↑ IRIZ (International Research Institute for Zen Buddhism)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Yanagida, Seizan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 柳 田 聖山 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese Buddhologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 19, 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Shiga prefecture |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 8, 2006 |