Sōtō Zen or the Sōtō school (曹洞宗, Sōtō-shū) is the largest of the three traditional sects of Zen in Japanese Buddhism (the others being Rinzai and Ōbaku)...

Zen for an overview of Zen, Chan Buddhism for the Chinese origins, and Sōtō, Rinzai and Ōbaku for the three main schools of Zen in Japan Japanese Zen...

established the Sōtō school, the Japanese branch of Caodong. The three traditional schools of Zen in contemporary Japan are the Sōtō (曹洞), Rinzai (臨済)...

taught in some Rinzai lineages today. Few Sōtō Zen practitioners concentrate on kōans during meditation, but the Sōtō sect has a strong historical connection...

elements of Sōtō Zen that was standardized by the early Tokugawa period. Since the popularization of Sōtō Zen in medieval Japan, Sōtō Zen funeral practices...

are only about fifty to eighty of such inka shōmei-bearers in Japan. In Sōtō-Zen, dharma transmission is referred to as shiho, and further training is required...

Transmission remain important in Japanese Sōtō Zen. (Jiyu-Kennett 2002: 97) Apart from extending the appeal of Sōtō Zen to the rural population, Keizan made...

Samantabhadra are also said to have already attained Buddhahood. As part of the Sōtō Zen school of Mahāyanā, Dōgen Zenji described Four Exemplary Acts of a Bodhisattva:...

California, Los Angeles. In his section "Acknowledgments" in his book Sōtō Zen in Medieval Japan, Bodiford thanks the monks of the Eihei-ji temple in...

September 1253), was a Japanese Zen Buddhist monk, writer, poet, philosopher, and founder of the Sōtō school of Zen in Japan. He is also known as Dōgen...