Musō Soseki
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 673 years ago |
Born | Mie |
Japan | |
Date of died | October 20,1351 |
Died | Rinsen-ji Temple |
Kyoto | |
Japan | |
Date of birth | January 1,1275 |
Great grandparent | Sasaki Yasutsuna |
Nationality | Japanese |
Parents | Sasaki Asatsuna |
Books | Sun at Midnight: Poems and Sermons |
Dream conversations on Buddhism and Zen | |
Dialogues in a Dream: The Life and Zen Teaching of Muso Soseki | |
Bokutotsusô: Studies on the Calligraphy of the Zen Master Musô Soseki | |
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ID | 1643463 |
Musō Soseki Life story
Musō Soseki was a Rinzai Zen Buddhist monk and teacher, and a calligraphist, poet and garden designer. The most famous monk of his time, he is also known as Musō Kokushi, an honorific conferred on him by Emperor Go-Daigo. His mother was the daughter of Hōjō Masamura, seventh Shikken of the Kamakura shogunate.