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Muso Kokushi
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Musō Soseki (夢窓 疎石, 1275 – October 20, 1351) was a Rinzai Zen Buddhist monk and teacher, and a calligraphist, poet and garden designer.
Zen teachings muso soseki biography
The most famous monk of his time, he is also known as Musō Kokushi (夢窓国師) ("national Zen teacher"), a honorific conferred to him by Emperor Go-Daigo.[1] His mother was the daughter of Hōjō Masamura (1264-1268), seventh Shikken (regent) of the Kamakura shogunate.
Biography
Originally from Ise Province, now part of modern-day Mie Prefecture, Soseki was a ninth-generation descendant of Emperor Uda.[2] At the age of four he lost his mother and was therefore put in the temple of Hirashioyama under the guidance of priest Kūa.[2] He entered a mountain temple in 1283, where he studied the Shingon and Tendai sects of Buddhism.
In 1292 he took his vows at Tōdai-ji in Nara, and was given the name Chikaku. In 1293 he dreamed that, while visiting two temples in China called in Japanese Sozan (疎山) and Sekitō (石頭) he