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Sokei-an

January 01, 1970

Sokei-an Shigetsu Sasaki (佐々木 指月 (曹渓庵); March 10, 1882 – May 17, 1945), born Yeita Sasaki (佐々木 栄多), was a Japanese Rinzai monk who founded the Buddhist Society of America (now the First Zen Institute of America) in New York City in 1930. Influential in the growth of Zen Buddhism in the United States, Sokei-an was one of the first Japanese masters to live and teach in America and the foremost purveyor in the U.S. of Direct Transmission.[1] In 1944 he married American Ruth Fuller Everett. He died in May 1945 without leaving behind a Dharma heir. One of his better known students was Alan Watts, who studied under him briefly. Watts was a student of Sokei-an in the late 1930s.[2]

Sokei-an Sasaki
TitleRoshi
Personal
Born
Yeita Sasaki

March 10, 1882
Japan
DiedMay 17, 1945
(age 63)
ReligionZen Buddhism
SpouseTomé Sasaki
Ruth Fuller Sasaki
ChildrenShintaro
Seiko
Shioko
SchoolRinzai
EducationImperial Academy of Art (Tokyo)
California Institute of Art
Senior posting
TeacherSokatsu Shaku
Soyen Shaku
Based inBuddhist Society of America
PredecessorSokatsu Shaku
SuccessorNone
Students
Websitewww.firstzen.org/

Biography edit

Sokei-an was born in Japan in 1882 as Yeita Sasaki. He was raised by his father, a Shinto priest, and his father's wife, though his birth mother was his father's concubine. Beginning at age four, his father taught him Chinese and soon had him reading Confucian texts.[3] Following the death of his father when he was fifteen, he became an apprentice sculptor and came to study under Japan's renowned Koun Takamura at the Imperial Academy of Art in Tokyo.[4] While in school he began his study of Rinzai Zen under Sokatsu Shaku, (a Dharma heir of Soyen Shaku), graduating from the academy in 1905.[3] Following graduation he was drafted by the Japanese Imperial Army and served briefly during the Russo-Japanese War on the border of Manchuria. Sasaki was discharged when the war ended shortly after in 1906, and soon married his first wife, Tomé, a fellow student of Sokatsu.[5] The newlyweds followed Sokatsu to San Francisco, California that year as part of a delegation of fourteen. The couple soon had their first child, Shintaro. In California with the hope of establishing a Zen community, the group farmed strawberries in Hayward, California with little success. Sasaki then studied painting under Richard Partington[3] at the California Institute of Art, where he met Nyogen Senzaki.[4] By 1910 the delegation's Zen community had proven unsuccessful. All members of the original fourteen, with the exception of Sasaki, made return trips back to Japan.[4][5]

Sokei-an then moved to Oregon without Tomé and Shintaro to work for a short while, being rejoined by them in Seattle Washington (where his wife gave birth to their second child, Seiko,[3] a girl). In Seattle, Sasaki worked as a picture frame maker[3] and wrote various articles and essays for Japanese publications such as Chuo Koron and Hokubei Shinpo. He traveled the Oregon and Washington countrysides selling subscriptions to Hokubei Shinpo.[3] His wife, who had become pregnant again, moved back to Japan in 1913 to raise their children. Over the next few years he made a living doing various jobs, when in 1916 he moved to Greenwich Village in Manhattan, New York, where he encountered the poet and magus Aleister Crowley.[6] Sometime during this period he was interviewed by the US Army but not drafted due to lingering allegiances to Japan.[7] In New York he worked both as a janitor and a translator for Maxwell Bodenheim. He also began to write poetry during his free time.[5] He returned to Japan in 1920 to continue his koan studies, first under Soyen Shaku and then with Sokatsu.[4] In 1922 he returned to the United States and in 1924 or 1925 began giving talks on Buddhism at the Orientalia Bookstore on E. 58th Street in New York City, having received lay teaching credentials from Sokatsu.[1] In 1928 he received inka from Sokatsu in Japan, the "final seal" of approval in the Rinzai school.[4] Then, on May 11, 1930, Sokei-an and some American students founded the Buddhist Society of America, subsequently incorporated in 1931,[8] at 63 West 70th Street (originally with just four members).[9] Here he offered sanzen interviews and gave Dharma talks, also working on various translations of important Buddhist texts.[5] He made part of his living by sculpting Buddhist images and repairing art for Tiffany's.[10]

In 1938 his future wife, Ruth Fuller Everett, began studying under him and received her Buddhist name (Eryu); her daughter, Eleanor, was then the wife of Alan Watts (who also studied under Sokei-an that same year).[11] In 1941 Ruth purchased an apartment at 124 E. 65th Street in New York City, which also served as living quarters for Sokei-an and became the new home for the Buddhist Society of America (opened on December 6). Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, Sokei-an was arrested by the FBI as an "enemy alien"[5] taken to Ellis Island on June 15 and then interned at a camp in Fort Meade, Maryland on October 2, 1942 (where he suffered from high blood pressure and several strokes).[2] He was released from the internment camp on August 17, 1943, following the pleas of his students and returned to the Buddhist Society of America in New York City. In 1944 he divorced his wife in Little Rock, Arkansas, with whom he had been separated for several years. Soon after, on July 10, 1944, Sokei-an married Ruth Fuller Everett in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Sokei-an died on May 17, 1945, after years of bad health.[5] His ashes are interred at Woodlawn Cemetery in Bronx, New York.[12] The Buddhist Society of America underwent a name change following his death in 1945, becoming the First Zen Institute of America.[13]

Teaching style edit

Sokei-an's primary way of teaching Zen Buddhism was by means of sanzen, "an interview during which the teacher would set the student a koan"[14]—and his Dharma talks were often delivered in the form of a teisho.[15] Sokei-an did not provide instruction in zazen or hold sesshins at the Buddhist Society of America. His primary focus was on koans and sanzen, relying on the Hakuin system.[16] According to Mary Farkas, "Sokei-an had no interest in reproducing the features of Japanese Zen monasticism, the strict and regimented training that aims at making people 'forget self.' In these establishments, individuality is stamped out, novices move together like a school of fish, their cross-legged position corrected with an ever-ready stick."[17] Sokei-an said: "I am of the Zen sect. My special profession is to train students of Buddhism by the Zen method. Nowadays, there are many types of Zen teachers. One type, for example, teaches Zen through philosophical discourse; another, through so-called meditation; and still another direct from soul to soul. My way of teaching is the direct transmission of Zen from soul to soul."[17][18]

Miscellaneous edit

Dwight Goddard (author of "A Buddhist Bible") has described Sokei-an as, "being from the autocratic and blunt 'old school' of Zen masters."[10] According to writer Robert Lopez, "Sokei-an lectured on Zen and Buddhism in English. But he communicated the essence of the Buddha’s teaching and in his daily life by his presence alone, in silence, and in a radiance achieved through, as he once said, 'nature’s orders.'"[5] Alan Watts has said of Sokei-an, "I felt that he was basically on the same team as I; that he bridged the spiritual and the earthy, and that he was as humorously earthy as he was spiritually awakened."[11] In his autobiography, Watts had this to say, "When he began to teach Zen he was still, as I understand, more the artist than the priest, but in the course of time he shaved his head and 'sobered up.' Yet not really. For Ruth was often apologizing for him and telling us not to take him too literally or too seriously when, for example, he would say that Zen is to realize that life is simply nonsense, without meaning other than itself or future purpose beyond itself. The trick was to dig the nonsense, for—as Tibetans say—you can tell the true yogi by his laugh."[19] Zen master Dae Gak has said, "Sokei-An has a good understanding of Western culture and this, combined with his enlightened perspective, is a trustworthy bridge from Zen in the East to Zen in the West. He finds that place where "East" and "West" no longer exist and articulates this wisdom brilliantly for all beings. A true bodhisattva."[20]

Notable students edit

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Zen and the Transmission of Spiritual Power".
  2. ^ Shansky, Albert (2015). An American's Journey into Buddhism. McFarland. p. 214. ISBN 9780786484249.
  3. ^ a b c d e f Stirling, 31-35
  4. ^ a b c d e Ford, 66-67
  5. ^ a b c d e f g Lopez
  6. ^ The International [v12 # 2 and 4, 1918] ed. George Sylvester Viereck
  7. ^ Sasaki, "Excluded Japanese and Exclusionary Americans" in Rediscovering America, p. 75.
  8. ^ Prebish, 10
  9. ^ Smith, Novack; 150-151
  10. ^ a b Stirling, 20
  11. ^ a b Tweti
  12. ^ Stirling, 253-254
  13. ^ Miller, 163
  14. ^ Lachman, 114
  15. ^ Skinner Keller, 638
  16. ^ Watts, 134
  17. ^ a b Farkas, 1
  18. ^ "ZEN AND THE TRANSMISSION OF SPIRITUAL POWER - Tibetan Buddhist Encyclopedia".
  19. ^ Watts, 135
  20. ^ Sokei-An Shigetsu Sasaki (1998-04-01). Zen Pivots: Lectures On Buddhism And Zen. Weatherhill. ISBN 0-8348-0416-6.
  21. ^ . sweepingzen.com. Archived from the original on January 9, 2015. Retrieved 2017-07-18.

Bibliography edit

  • Delp, Michael (1997). The Coast of Nowhere: Meditations on Rivers, Lakes, and Streams. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 0-8143-2711-7. OCLC 36942529.
  • Farkas, Mary; Sokei-an Shigetsu Sasaki (1993). The Zen Eye: A Collection of Zen Talks by Sokei-an. Tokyo; New York: Weatherhill. ISBN 0-8348-0272-4. OCLC 27266361.
  • Ford, James Ishmael; James Ishmael Ford (2006). Zen Master Who?: A Guide to the People and Stories of Zen. Wisdom Publications. ISBN 0-86171-509-8. OCLC 70174891.
  • Lachman, Gary (2003). Turn Off Your Mind: The Mystic Sixties and the Dark Side of the Age of Aquarius. The Disinformation Company. ISBN 0-9713942-3-7. OCLC 52384670.
  • Lopez, Robert (Spring 1997). . Tricycle: The Buddhist Review. Archived from the original on May 7, 2006. Retrieved 2008-02-29.
  • Miller, Timothy (1995). America's Alternative Religions. State University of New York Press. ISBN 0-7914-2397-2. OCLC 30476551.
  • Prebish, Charles S (1999). Luminous Passage: The Practice and Study of Buddhism in America. University of California Press. pp. 32, 33, 34. ISBN 0-520-21697-0.
  • Skinner Keller, Rosemary; Rosemary Radford Ruether; Marie Cantlon (2006). The Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America. Indiana University Press. ISBN 0-253-34685-1. OCLC 61711172.
  • Smith, Huston; Philip Novak (2004). Buddhism: A Concise Introduction. HarperCollins. ISBN 0-06-073067-6. OCLC 57307393.
  • Stirling, Isabel (2006). Zen Pioneer: The Life & Works of Ruth Fuller Sasaki. Shoemaker & Hoard Publishers. ISBN 1-59376-110-4. OCLC 65165357.
  • Tweti, Mira (2007-08-06). . Tricycle: The Buddhist Review. Archived from the original on 2007-10-31. Retrieved 2008-02-29.
  • Watts, Alan (2007). In My Own Way: An Autobiography, 1915-1965. New World Library. ISBN 978-1-57731-584-1. OCLC 84838304.
  • Sasaki, Sokei-an Shigetsu (2011). "Excluded Japanese and Exclusionary Americans". In Duus, Peter (ed.). Rediscovering America: Japanese Perspectives on the American Century. University of California Press. pp. 69–76. ISBN 978-0520268432.

Further reading edit

  • Farkas, Mary; Sokei-an Shigetsu Sasaki (1993). The Zen Eye: A Collection of Zen Talks by Sokei-an. Tokyo; New York: Weatherhill. ISBN 0-8348-0272-4. OCLC 27266361.
  • Farkas, Mary; Sokei-an Shigetsu Sasaki; Robert Lopez (1998). Zen Pivots: Lectures on Buddhism and Zen. New York: Weatherhill. ISBN 0-8348-0416-6. OCLC 38120661.
  • Fields, Rick (1981). How the Swans Came to the Lake: A Narrative History of Buddhism in America. Shambhala Publications/Random House. ISBN 0-87773-208-6. OCLC 7571910.
  • Hotz, Michael; Sokei-an Shigetsu Sasaki (2003). Holding the Lotus to the Rock: The Autobiography of Sokei-an, America's First Zen Master. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows. ISBN 1-56858-248-X. OCLC 51203880.
  • Sasaki, Sokei-an Shigetsu (1947). Cat's Yawn: The Thirteen Numbers Published from 1940 to 1941. New York: First Zen Institute of America. OCLC 21917701.
  • Sasaki, Sokei-an Shigetsu (1931). The Story of the Giant Disciples of Buddha; Ananda and Maha-Kasyapa. First Zen Institute of America. OCLC 39794012.
  • Sasaki, Sokei-an Shigetsu (1931). The Story of the Giant Disciples of Buddha; Ananda and Maha-Kasyapa. First Zen Institute of America. OCLC 39794012.

External links edit

  • First Zen Institute of America

January 01, 1970
sokei, shigetsu, sasaki, 佐々木, 指月, 曹渓庵, march, 1882, 1945, born, yeita, sasaki, 佐々木, 栄多, japanese, rinzai, monk, founded, buddhist, society, america, first, institute, america, york, city, 1930, influential, growth, buddhism, united, states, first, japanese, ma. Sokei an Shigetsu Sasaki 佐々木 指月 曹渓庵 March 10 1882 May 17 1945 born Yeita Sasaki 佐々木 栄多 was a Japanese Rinzai monk who founded the Buddhist Society of America now the First Zen Institute of America in New York City in 1930 Influential in the growth of Zen Buddhism in the United States Sokei an was one of the first Japanese masters to live and teach in America and the foremost purveyor in the U S of Direct Transmission 1 In 1944 he married American Ruth Fuller Everett He died in May 1945 without leaving behind a Dharma heir One of his better known students was Alan Watts who studied under him briefly Watts was a student of Sokei an in the late 1930s 2 Sokei an SasakiTitleRoshiPersonalBornYeita SasakiMarch 10 1882JapanDiedMay 17 1945 age 63 ReligionZen BuddhismSpouseTome SasakiRuth Fuller SasakiChildrenShintaroSeikoShiokoSchoolRinzaiEducationImperial Academy of Art Tokyo California Institute of ArtSenior postingTeacherSokatsu ShakuSoyen ShakuBased inBuddhist Society of AmericaPredecessorSokatsu ShakuSuccessorNoneStudents Alan WattsWebsitewww firstzen org Contents 1 Biography 2 Teaching style 3 Miscellaneous 4 Notable students 5 See also 6 References 7 Bibliography 8 Further reading 9 External linksBiography editSokei an was born in Japan in 1882 as Yeita Sasaki He was raised by his father a Shinto priest and his father s wife though his birth mother was his father s concubine Beginning at age four his father taught him Chinese and soon had him reading Confucian texts 3 Following the death of his father when he was fifteen he became an apprentice sculptor and came to study under Japan s renowned Koun Takamura at the Imperial Academy of Art in Tokyo 4 While in school he began his study of Rinzai Zen under Sokatsu Shaku a Dharma heir of Soyen Shaku graduating from the academy in 1905 3 Following graduation he was drafted by the Japanese Imperial Army and served briefly during the Russo Japanese War on the border of Manchuria Sasaki was discharged when the war ended shortly after in 1906 and soon married his first wife Tome a fellow student of Sokatsu 5 The newlyweds followed Sokatsu to San Francisco California that year as part of a delegation of fourteen The couple soon had their first child Shintaro In California with the hope of establishing a Zen community the group farmed strawberries in Hayward California with little success Sasaki then studied painting under Richard Partington 3 at the California Institute of Art where he met Nyogen Senzaki 4 By 1910 the delegation s Zen community had proven unsuccessful All members of the original fourteen with the exception of Sasaki made return trips back to Japan 4 5 Sokei an then moved to Oregon without Tome and Shintaro to work for a short while being rejoined by them in Seattle Washington where his wife gave birth to their second child Seiko 3 a girl In Seattle Sasaki worked as a picture frame maker 3 and wrote various articles and essays for Japanese publications such as Chuo Koron and Hokubei Shinpo He traveled the Oregon and Washington countrysides selling subscriptions to Hokubei Shinpo 3 His wife who had become pregnant again moved back to Japan in 1913 to raise their children Over the next few years he made a living doing various jobs when in 1916 he moved to Greenwich Village in Manhattan New York where he encountered the poet and magus Aleister Crowley 6 Sometime during this period he was interviewed by the US Army but not drafted due to lingering allegiances to Japan 7 In New York he worked both as a janitor and a translator for Maxwell Bodenheim He also began to write poetry during his free time 5 He returned to Japan in 1920 to continue his koan studies first under Soyen Shaku and then with Sokatsu 4 In 1922 he returned to the United States and in 1924 or 1925 began giving talks on Buddhism at the Orientalia Bookstore on E 58th Street in New York City having received lay teaching credentials from Sokatsu 1 In 1928 he received inka from Sokatsu in Japan the final seal of approval in the Rinzai school 4 Then on May 11 1930 Sokei an and some American students founded the Buddhist Society of America subsequently incorporated in 1931 8 at 63 West 70th Street originally with just four members 9 Here he offered sanzen interviews and gave Dharma talks also working on various translations of important Buddhist texts 5 He made part of his living by sculpting Buddhist images and repairing art for Tiffany s 10 In 1938 his future wife Ruth Fuller Everett began studying under him and received her Buddhist name Eryu her daughter Eleanor was then the wife of Alan Watts who also studied under Sokei an that same year 11 In 1941 Ruth purchased an apartment at 124 E 65th Street in New York City which also served as living quarters for Sokei an and became the new home for the Buddhist Society of America opened on December 6 Following the attack on Pearl Harbor Sokei an was arrested by the FBI as an enemy alien 5 taken to Ellis Island on June 15 and then interned at a camp in Fort Meade Maryland on October 2 1942 where he suffered from high blood pressure and several strokes 2 He was released from the internment camp on August 17 1943 following the pleas of his students and returned to the Buddhist Society of America in New York City In 1944 he divorced his wife in Little Rock Arkansas with whom he had been separated for several years Soon after on July 10 1944 Sokei an married Ruth Fuller Everett in Hot Springs Arkansas Sokei an died on May 17 1945 after years of bad health 5 His ashes are interred at Woodlawn Cemetery in Bronx New York 12 The Buddhist Society of America underwent a name change following his death in 1945 becoming the First Zen Institute of America 13 Teaching style editSokei an s primary way of teaching Zen Buddhism was by means of sanzen an interview during which the teacher would set the student a koan 14 and his Dharma talks were often delivered in the form of a teisho 15 Sokei an did not provide instruction in zazen or hold sesshins at the Buddhist Society of America His primary focus was on koans and sanzen relying on the Hakuin system 16 According to Mary Farkas Sokei an had no interest in reproducing the features of Japanese Zen monasticism the strict and regimented training that aims at making people forget self In these establishments individuality is stamped out novices move together like a school of fish their cross legged position corrected with an ever ready stick 17 Sokei an said I am of the Zen sect My special profession is to train students of Buddhism by the Zen method Nowadays there are many types of Zen teachers One type for example teaches Zen through philosophical discourse another through so called meditation and still another direct from soul to soul My way of teaching is the direct transmission of Zen from soul to soul 17 18 Miscellaneous editDwight Goddard author of A Buddhist Bible has described Sokei an as being from the autocratic and blunt old school of Zen masters 10 According to writer Robert Lopez Sokei an lectured on Zen and Buddhism in English But he communicated the essence of the Buddha s teaching and in his daily life by his presence alone in silence and in a radiance achieved through as he once said nature s orders 5 Alan Watts has said of Sokei an I felt that he was basically on the same team as I that he bridged the spiritual and the earthy and that he was as humorously earthy as he was spiritually awakened 11 In his autobiography Watts had this to say When he began to teach Zen he was still as I understand more the artist than the priest but in the course of time he shaved his head and sobered up Yet not really For Ruth was often apologizing for him and telling us not to take him too literally or too seriously when for example he would say that Zen is to realize that life is simply nonsense without meaning other than itself or future purpose beyond itself The trick was to dig the nonsense for as Tibetans say you can tell the true yogi by his laugh 19 Zen master Dae Gak has said Sokei An has a good understanding of Western culture and this combined with his enlightened perspective is a trustworthy bridge from Zen in the East to Zen in the West He finds that place where East and West no longer exist and articulates this wisdom brilliantly for all beings A true bodhisattva 20 Notable students editAlan Watts He Watts left after two weeks frustrated with the koan work he was doing 21 Mary Farkas Ruth Fuller Sasaki Samuel L LewisSee also editBuddhism in the United States List of Rinzai Buddhists Timeline of Zen Buddhism in the United StatesReferences edit Zen and the Transmission of Spiritual Power Shansky Albert 2015 An American s Journey into Buddhism McFarland p 214 ISBN 9780786484249 a b c d e f Stirling 31 35 a b c d e Ford 66 67 a b c d e f g Lopez The International v12 2 and 4 1918 ed George Sylvester Viereck Sasaki Excluded Japanese and Exclusionary Americans in Rediscovering America p 75 Prebish 10 Smith Novack 150 151 a b Stirling 20 a b Tweti Stirling 253 254 Miller 163 Lachman 114 Skinner Keller 638 Watts 134 a b Farkas 1 ZEN AND THE TRANSMISSION OF SPIRITUAL POWER Tibetan Buddhist Encyclopedia Watts 135 Sokei An Shigetsu Sasaki 1998 04 01 Zen Pivots Lectures On Buddhism And Zen Weatherhill ISBN 0 8348 0416 6 Watts Alan sweepingzen com Archived from the original on January 9 2015 Retrieved 2017 07 18 Bibliography editDelp Michael 1997 The Coast of Nowhere Meditations on Rivers Lakes and Streams Wayne State University Press ISBN 0 8143 2711 7 OCLC 36942529 Farkas Mary Sokei an Shigetsu Sasaki 1993 The Zen Eye A Collection of Zen Talks by Sokei an Tokyo New York Weatherhill ISBN 0 8348 0272 4 OCLC 27266361 Ford James Ishmael James Ishmael Ford 2006 Zen Master Who A Guide to the People and Stories of Zen Wisdom Publications ISBN 0 86171 509 8 OCLC 70174891 Lachman Gary 2003 Turn Off Your Mind The Mystic Sixties and the Dark Side of the Age of Aquarius The Disinformation Company ISBN 0 9713942 3 7 OCLC 52384670 Lopez Robert Spring 1997 Zen in the Yawn of a Cat Sokei an Shigetsu Sasaki Tricycle The Buddhist Review Archived from the original on May 7 2006 Retrieved 2008 02 29 Miller Timothy 1995 America s Alternative Religions State University of New York Press ISBN 0 7914 2397 2 OCLC 30476551 Prebish Charles S 1999 Luminous Passage The Practice and Study of Buddhism in America University of California Press pp 32 33 34 ISBN 0 520 21697 0 Skinner Keller Rosemary Rosemary Radford Ruether Marie Cantlon 2006 The Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America Indiana University Press ISBN 0 253 34685 1 OCLC 61711172 Smith Huston Philip Novak 2004 Buddhism A Concise Introduction HarperCollins ISBN 0 06 073067 6 OCLC 57307393 Stirling Isabel 2006 Zen Pioneer The Life amp Works of Ruth Fuller Sasaki Shoemaker amp Hoard Publishers ISBN 1 59376 110 4 OCLC 65165357 Tweti Mira 2007 08 06 The Sensualist Tricycle The Buddhist Review Archived from the original on 2007 10 31 Retrieved 2008 02 29 Watts Alan 2007 In My Own Way An Autobiography 1915 1965 New World Library ISBN 978 1 57731 584 1 OCLC 84838304 Sasaki Sokei an Shigetsu 2011 Excluded Japanese and Exclusionary Americans In Duus Peter ed Rediscovering America Japanese Perspectives on the American Century University of California Press pp 69 76 ISBN 978 0520268432 Further reading editFarkas Mary Sokei an Shigetsu Sasaki 1993 The Zen Eye A Collection of Zen Talks by Sokei an Tokyo New York Weatherhill ISBN 0 8348 0272 4 OCLC 27266361 Farkas Mary Sokei an Shigetsu Sasaki Robert Lopez 1998 Zen Pivots Lectures on Buddhism and Zen New York Weatherhill ISBN 0 8348 0416 6 OCLC 38120661 Fields Rick 1981 How the Swans Came to the Lake A Narrative History of Buddhism in America Shambhala Publications Random House ISBN 0 87773 208 6 OCLC 7571910 Hotz Michael Sokei an Shigetsu Sasaki 2003 Holding the Lotus to the Rock The Autobiography of Sokei an America s First Zen Master New York Four Walls Eight Windows ISBN 1 56858 248 X OCLC 51203880 Sasaki Sokei an Shigetsu 1947 Cat s Yawn The Thirteen Numbers Published from 1940 to 1941 New York First Zen Institute of America OCLC 21917701 Sasaki Sokei an Shigetsu 1931 The Story of the Giant Disciples of Buddha Ananda and Maha Kasyapa First Zen Institute of America OCLC 39794012 Sasaki Sokei an Shigetsu 1931 The Story of the Giant Disciples of Buddha Ananda and Maha Kasyapa First Zen Institute of America OCLC 39794012 External links editFirst Zen Institute of America Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Sokei an amp oldid 1208899568, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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