Gangoku Kankei

Quick Facts

Intro

Soto Zen patriarch

Places

Japan

was

Patriarch

Work field

Religion

Gender

Male

Religion(s):

Buddhism

Birth

1682

Place of birth

Hizen Province, Japan

Death

1768

Age

86 years

The details (from wikipedia)

Biography

Gangoku Kankei (Japanese: 頑極官慶) was a Sōtō Zen priest of the Edo period. He was the founding abbot of Shinpo-ji temple (新豊寺) in Nagoya Prefecture. The prominent modern Zen teachers Dainin Katagiri and Sawaki Kōdō both trace their lineages back to Gangoku.

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