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Dictionary definition: Rinzai
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- A Dictionary of Buddhism
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Copyright© A Dictionary of Buddhism 2004, originally published by Oxford University Press 2004. (Hide copyright information)
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Rinzai
(Jap., Rinzaishū). One of the schools of Japanese
zen
Buddhism
, founded in the early
Kamakura
period by the
monk
Eisai
(or Yōsai, 1141–1215). Eisai, a
Tendai
monk, made two excursions to
China
during his life, and on the second trip, he received training and certification in the Huang-lung lineage of
Lin-chi
Ch'an (‘Rinzai Zen’ is the Japanese pronunciation of ‘Lin-chi Ch'an’). Even though he is revered as the ‘founder’ of the Rinzai school in
Japan
, recent scholars have pointed out that he never explicitly set out to establish a new school that would practise only Zen techniques or propagate only Zen literature and ...
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