was a

Sōtō Sōtō Zen or is the largest of the three traditional sects of Zen in Japanese Buddhism (the others being Rinzai school, Rinzai and Ōbaku). It is the Japanese line of the Chinese Caodong school, Cáodòng school, which was founded during the ...

Zen Zen (; from Chinese: ''Chán''; in Korean: ''Sŏn'', and Vietnamese: ''Thiền'') is a Mahayana Buddhist tradition that developed in China during the Tang dynasty by blending Indian Mahayana Buddhism, particularly Yogacara and Madhyamaka phil ...

monk. He received

dharma transmission In Chan and Zen Buddhism, dharma transmission is a custom in which a person is established as a "successor in an unbroken lineage of teachers and disciples, a spiritual 'bloodline' ('' kechimyaku'') theoretically traced back to the Buddha him ...

from

Gasan Jōseki Gasan Jōseki (峨山韶碩 1275–23 November 1366) was a Japanese people, Japanese Soto Zen monk. He was a disciple of Keizan Jokin, and his students included Bassui Tokushō, Taigen Sōshin, Tsūgen Jakurei, Mutan Sokan, Daisetsu Sōrei, and J ...

and is considered a patriarch by the Sōtō school. He authored the ''Zenkai-ron'' (Treatise on Zen Precepts). His disciple , who founded Akiba Souhonden Kasuisai in 1394, is considered his successor in the line of patriarchs. His other disciples included and , who founded Kōun-ji Temple in 1394.

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Baizan at Tsuratsura Wiki
1417 deaths Japanese Buddhist clergy Year of birth unknown Zen Buddhist monks {{Buddhism-stub

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