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General Information: Overview: Who We Are: Sogaku Daiun Harada, Roshi
Japanese Zen Master. Trained in both Rinzai and Soto traditions, entered Soto temple as novice at age 7. Continued training in Soto temples during primary and high school years. At 20 became monk at Shogen-ji, a Rinzai monastery; after 2¬Ω years of strenuous training, attained kensho. At age 27 enrolled at Soto-sponsored Komazawa University. Continued to do research under well-known scholars for 6 years after graduation. Then trained with Dokutan Roshi of Nanzen-ji, Kyoto for 2 years; later moved into Nanzen-ji as Dokutan's assistant and applied himself wholeheartedly to zazen and koans; completed all koans and received inka from Dokutan Roshi. At this time, recalled to Komazawa University; spent 12 years teaching there, part of the time as full professor; combined Zen training with academic work. Afterwards became Abbot of Hosshin-ji, a post he retained for 40 years. Until almost age 90, conducted week-long sesshin at Hosshin-ji 6 times a year; also held sesshin elsewhere.' Nominally of the Soto sect, he welded together the best of Soto and Rinzai and the amalgam was a vibrant Buddhism, which has become one of the great teaching lines in Japan today.' Gave Inka to Hakuun Yasutani Roshi and encouraged him to start a new Zen Group for both Lay and Priests called the Sambo Kyodan.
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