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The spiritual line of the transmission of the Dharma, the living pulsation of the ungraspable reality, begins with the historical Buddha Shakyamuni, carried on through Bodhidharma and Daikan Eno to Dogen Zenji and Keizan Zenji all the way up to present times.
Dogen Zenji (1200-1253) and Keizan Zenji (1268-1325), the founders of the Japanese Soto-Zen, were two of the most outstanding religious characters of their times. The practicing of Shikantaza/Zazen is the essence of their teaching and their spirit, as it has been transmitted.
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Sawaki Kodo Roshi (1880-1965) was one of the most important Zen-masters of the twentieth century. Being a major reformer, he restored Zen to its original freshness and simplicity of “Zazen itself”.
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Deshimaru Taisen Roshi (1914-1982) was a disciple of Sawaki Roshi for about 30 years. He arrived in Europe in 1967, where he began to teach the practicing of Zen: Zazen. Many people became his disciples, and more than 100 Dojos were founded by him.
Because of his unique and impressing personality, Deshimaru Roshi was also called The Bodhidharma of Modern Times.
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Narita Shuyu Roshi (1914-2004) was a fellow-disciple of Deshimaru Roshi, and he too practiced for about 30 years with Sawaki Roshi. He was the first to receive the transmission of the Dharma (Shiho/Denpo) from him. Narita Roshi was the abbot of the Todenji-temple in the northern regions of Japan, and he supported Deshimaru Roshis mission in the Japanese Soto-Zen. Furthermore, Narita Roshi is honorary-founder of Mokushôzan Jakkô-ji, the Zen-center in Schönböken.
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L. Tenryu Tenbreul, born in 1956, began to practice Zazen in 1975. He concentrated on studying and practicing with Deshimaru Roshi from 1977 to 1982. In 1978, he was ordained a monk by Deshimaru Roshi and founded the Dojo Mokusho-Do in Münster on his behalf, which he directed until 1986. After his teachers’ death, he continued his studies as a disciple of Narita Roshi, from whom he received Shiho/Denpo, the transmission of the Dharma, in 1986.
L. Tenryu is president of the incorporated society “Zen-Vereinigung Deutschland e.V.” (German Zen Association) since 1983, founder and head of the Zen-center Mokushôzan Jakkô-ji in Schönböken, and head of the Zen-temple Shôgôzan Zenkôji in Berlin since 1986. Since 1993, he has been Dendo- kyoshi (approved teacher of the Japanese Soto-Zen school).
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M. Shudo Andre, born in 1953, Zazen since 1978. Since 1979 head of the Zen-Dojo Ryumon in Hamburg and disciple of Deshimaru Roshi. Bodhisattva-ordination in 1979. Since the death of Deshimaru Roshi 1982 disciple of L. Tenryu. Monks-ordination in 1986, and in 2003, he received the transmission of the Dharma from L. Tenryu. Scince 2004 Dendokyoshi Jakko-ji. |
Th. Kairyu Quitschau, born in 1955, Zazen since 1978, disciple of Deshimaru Roshi since 1979, 1981 monk-ordination by Deshimaru Roshi. Foundation of the Zen-Dojo Gyojin in Lübeck in 1981. Head of this Dojo until 2000. Since 1983 disciple of L. Tenryu. In 2003 transmission of the Dharma from L. Tenryu, and since 2004 Dendokyoshi Jakko-ji. |
A. Seiho Woller, born in 1952. Zazen since 1978. From 1980 – 1982 disciple of Deshimaru Roshi. Since the death of Deshimaru Roshi disciple of L. Tenryu. Monks-ordination from L. Tenryu in 1987. Since 1986 also head of the Zen-dojo Mokusho-Do in Münster. Transmission of the Dharma from L. Tenryu in 2003, and Dendokyoshi Jakko-ji since 2004. |
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