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taisen deshimaru wikipedia jump to content main menu main menu move to sidebar hide navigation main page contents current events random article about wikipedia contact us contribute help learn to edit community portal recent changes upload file special pages search search appearance donate create account log in personal tools donate create account log in contents move to sidebar hide top 1 biography toggle biography subsection 1 1 early life 1 2 war years 1 3 further zen studies 1 4 europe 2 influence 3 students 4 books 5 see also 6 references 7 external links toggle the table of contents taisen deshimaru 16 languages български català čeština deutsch esperanto español euskara فارسی français bahasa indonesia italiano 日本語 română русский slovenčina українська edit links article talk english read edit view history tools tools move to sidebar hide actions read edit view history general what links here related changes upload file permanent link page information cite this page get shortened url switch to legacy parser print export download as pdf printable version in other projects wikimedia commons wikiquote wikidata item appearance move to sidebar hide from wikipedia the free encyclopedia japanese sōtō zen buddhist 1914 1982 this article needs more citations please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources unsourced material may be challenged and removed find sources taisen deshimaru news newspapers books scholar jstor january 2026 learn how and when to remove this message taisen deshimaru taisen deshimaru in the netherlands 1967 title rōshi personal life born 1914 1914 saga prefecture japan died april 30 1982 1982 04 30 aged 67 68 website association zen internationale religious life religion buddhism school sōtō senior posting teacher kodo sawaki predecessor yamada reirin taisen deshimaru 弟子丸 泰仙 deshimaru taisen 29 november 1914 april 30 1982 was a japanese sōtō zen buddhist teacher who founded the association zen internationale biography edit early life edit born in the saga prefecture of kyūshū deshimaru was raised by his grandfather a former samurai before the meiji revolution and by his mother a devout follower of the jōdo shinshū sect of buddhism interested in the world he abandoned his mother s practices and studied christianity for a long while under a protestant minister before ultimately deciding that it was not for him either he returned to buddhism and eventually came into contact with rinzai teachings eventually he also grew distant from rinzai buddhism and was unsatisfied by his life as a businessman in 1935 when he was studying economics in tokyo deshimaru began to practice under sōtō zen master kodo sawaki 1 following the attack on pearl harbor his master predicted that japan would lose the war when deshimaru departed from his master kodo said our homeland will be destroyed our people annihilated and this may be the last time we see one another nevertheless love all mankind regardless of race or creed citation needed war years edit deshimaru was exempted from the imperial japanese army because of his near sightedness he went to the island of bangka indonesia to direct a copper mine there he taught the practice of zazen to the chinese indonesian and european inhabitants 2 he defended inhabitants against the violence of his own people and was therefore almost thrown in jail in which case he would have been released by the highest military authorities in japan 2 thereafter deshimaru went to the island of belitung to direct a copper mine which was captured from the dutch 2 after the war he was taken prisoner by the americans and sent to a camp in singapore 2 further zen studies edit deshimaru quickly rejoined kodo sawaki he studied with him for fourteen years until sawaki s death in 1965 citation needed deshimaru received ordination as a monk shortly before sawaki became ill deshimaru claimed to have received dharma transmission at sawaki s deathbed but it was never registered with the soto school citation needed sawaki is said to have expressed his wish to spread zen to other parts of the world on his deathbed and asked deshimaru to travel to europe and spread the teaching citation needed europe edit in 1967 deshimaru went to europe and settled in paris in order to fulfill his master s wish and spread the teachings of zen in an interview deshimaru affirmed he chose france to teach because of its philosophical tradition he cited michel de montaigne rené descartes henri bergson and nicolas malebranche as philosophers who understood zen without even knowing it 3 in the 1970s his mission grew in 1970 deshimaru received dharma transmission from master yamada reirin 1 he became kaikyosokan head of japanese soto zen for a particular country or continent in europe he died in 1982 after he had solidly established zen practice in the west after master deshimaru s death three of his closest disciples etienne zeisler roland rech and kosen thibaut traveled to japan to receive the shiho from the highest soto authority master rempo niwa zenji in 1977 master deshimaru ordained olivier wang genh into his soto lineage in 2016 olivier wang genh was re appointed president of the buddhist union of france influence edit deshimaru founded the association zen internationale in 1970 and la gendronnière in 1979 deshimaru trained many disciples and was the catalyst for the creation of a multitude of practice centers his teachings and multitude of books helped spread the influence of zen in europe and america particularly of the sōtō sect in his later years he stimulated the thoughts of zhong fushi who wrote several letters to him discussing zen as part of the flux students edit reiryu philippe coupey dharma transmission from kojun kishigami who received dharma transmission from kodo sawaki 4 kosen thibaut dharma transmission from niwa zenji in 1984 5 robert livingston master sando kaisen 6 books edit za zen the practice of the zen sit zen teachings of master taisen deshimaru the ring of the way testament of a zen master questions to a zen master the zen way to martial arts the way of true zen the voice of the valley mushotoku mind the heart of the heart sutra see also edit buddhism in france zazen references edit 1 2 association zen internationale master taisen deshimaru and the arrival of zen in europe archived from the original on 2013 02 28 retrieved 2012 06 11 1 2 3 4 buddhanet deshimaru archived from the original on 2012 05 02 retrieved 2006 02 04 archived at ghostarchive and the wayback machine taisen deshimaru hannya shingyo excerpt interview in english zazen and kinhin demonstration youtube 28 october 2014 kansas city zen center lineage european zen center master kosen sandó kaisen zen buddhovo sezení external links edit wikiquote has quotations related to zhong fashi https www academia edu 125077462 the_zen_letters association bouddhiste zen deshimaru association zen internationale buddhist masters and their organisations archived 2012 05 02 at 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