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Jochū Tengin (如仲天誾, also 恕仲天誾; 1363-1437) was a
Jochū Tengin (如仲天誾, also 恕仲天誾; 1363-1437) 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 Baisan Monpon
was a Sōtō Zen monk. He received dharma transmission 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 T ...
and is considered a patriarch by the Sōtō school.
By the time of Jochū, the institution and organization of the Keizan line of Sōtō Zen was complete.Steven Heine, Dale S. Wright. ''Zen Ritual''. Oxford University Press US, 2008. p. 272. His disciples, Kisan Shōsan and Shingan Dōkū, started separate dharma lineages that are honored in different temples within the school.
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