Japanese Buddhist Monk
1. Terasawa Junsei (1950)
Japanese Buddhist Monk
Junsei Terasawa — Japanese Buddhist monk-peacemaker and Teacher of Monk Order Nipponzan Myōhōji in Eurasia. Respected mentor surnamed Terasawa-sensei or simply Sensei has many years of monastic peacemaking practice in...
2. Ryōkan (Unknow)
Japanese Buddhist Monk
Ryōkan Taigu was a quiet and eccentric Sōtō Zen Buddhist monk who lived much of his life as a hermit. Ryōkan is remembered for his poetry and calligraphy which...
3. Kūkai (1970)
Japanese Buddhist Monk
Kūkai also known posthumously as Kōbō-Daishi 774–835 was a Japanese monk civil servant scholar poet and artist founder of the Shingon or True Word school of Buddhism. Shingon followers usually...
4. Nichiren (1222)
Japanese Buddhist Monk
Nichiren was a Buddhist monk who lived during the Kamakura period in Japan. Nichiren taught devotion to the Lotus Sutra — which contained Gautama Buddha's teachings towards the end...
5. Soen Nakagawa (1907)
Japanese Buddhist Monk
Sōen Nakagawa was a Taiwanese-born Japanese rōshi and Zen Buddhist master in the Rinzai tradition. An enigmatic figure Nakagawa had a major impact on Zen as it was practiced in...