Koryū Osaka

Koryū Osaka (1901-1985),[web 1] birthname Koryū Matsumoto, was a Japanese lay Zen-teacher who taught Taizan Maezumi the Inzan koan-curriculum.[1][web 2]

Biography

Koryū Osaka was born in 1901 as Koryū Matsumoto, but received the name Osaka when he was adopted into a family without a son. He attended Tokyo University, graduating with a major in Indian philosophy, and studied the Rinzai koan-curriculum with Muso Joko Roshi (1884-1948, aka Hannyakutsu Joko Roshi), a Shingon priest who studied the koans with another Shingon priest, Muchaku Kaiko Roshi (dates unknown); Kaiko in turn studied koans with Kazan Genku (1837-1917), a Rinzai Zen-priest of the Myoshin-ji branch of Rinzai Zen.[web 2] Muso Joko established the Fuji Hannya Dojo and the Tokyo Hannya Dojo, which was led by Koryū Osaka in the 193os, before he was drafted into the military, and then again after the war.[web 2] Maezumi started studying koans with Koryū Osaka in 1947.[note 1]

See also

Notes
  1. Barry Kaigen McMahon, The Evolution of the White Plum. A short and incomplete history of its founders and their practice: "The second point Bernie and I discussed was his objection to White Plum teachers claiming dharma transmission in the Rinzai line. His point was that Maezumi Roshi's transmission came from his father in the Soto school and Yasutani Roshi also in the Soto school even though trained in koans by Harada Sogaku, again in the Soto school. Claiming Rinzai transmission from Osaka Koryu Roshi was inaccurate, according to Bernie, as Koryu Roshi was head of an independent lay organization, the Shakamuni-kai, started by his teacher, Muso Joko, who was himself officially of the Shingon sect, not actually a part of the modern day Rinzai monastic system."

References
  1. Maezumi & Glassman (1976), p. 128.

Sources
Printed sources
  • Maezumi, Taizan; Glassman, Bernard (1976), On Zen Practice II, Zen Center of Los Angeles
Web-sources
  1. Hazy Moon Zen Centre, Teachers
  2. Barry Kaigen McMahon, The Evolution of the White Plum. A short and incomplete history of its founders and their practice
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