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	Hakuin Ekaku Summary
		Hakuin was born in 1685 in the small village of Hara, at the foot of Mount Fuji.
		Hakuin deeply believed that the most effective way for a student to achieve enlightenment was through extensive meditation on a koan.
		Hakuin's early extreme exertions affected his health, and at one point in his young life he fell ill for almost two years, experiencing what would now probably be classified as a nervous breakdown by Western medicine, though the symptoms were similar to kundalini.
	www.bookrags.com /Hakuin_Ekaku (2531 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Hakuin Ekaku (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Hakuin was born in 1685 in the small village of Hara, at the foot of Mount Fuji.
		Hakuin died in Hara, the same village in which he was born and which he had transformed into a center of Zen teaching, at the age of 83.
		Hakuin's early extreme exertions affected his health, and at one point in his young life he fell ill for almost two years, experiencing what would now probably be classified as a nervous breakdown by Western medicine, though the symptoms were similar to kundalini.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Hakuin-Ekaku (3277 words)

	Hakuin Ekaku (1685-1768)
		Hakuin Ekaku (1685–1768) possessed an unusual ability to convey the meaning of Zen to large numbers of people from all classes and religions.
		Hakuin in Japanese: HAKUIN ZENJI HOGO ZENSHU, 14 vols.
		Hakuin practiced painting late in life, beginning in his sixties and continuing until his death at eighty-four.
	www.terebess.hu /zen/hakuin.html (342 words)

	Hakuin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Hakuin is widely considered the most important Zen monk of the last five hundred years.
		At the age of fourteen, Hakuin became an apprentice monk at Shoinji in Hara where his cousin was the priest.
		Hakuin had his first true enlightenment experience at the age of twenty-three under the uncompromising discipline of an old priest named Etan Shoji.
	www.zenpaintings.com /artist-hakuin-print.htm (237 words)

	۞ Hakuin Ekaku - Encyclopédie, information et définition sur www.apropos-savoir.fr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Hakuin Ekaku (白隠慧鶴 Hakuin Ekaku, 1686 -1769) fut l'une des figures les plus influentes du bouddhisme zen japonais.
		Hakuin naquit en 1686 dans le petit village d'Hara, au pied du mont Fuji.
		Hakuin mourut à l'âge de 83 ans à Hara, le village dans lequel il fut né, devenu un haut lieu de l'enseignement du Zen.
	www.apropos-savoir.fr /Hakuin_Ekaku (859 words)

	Hakuin Zenji (Hakuin Ekaku 1689-1769) presented in Religion section
		Hakuin is often considered the father of modern Rinzai Zen.
		Hakuin taught that direct knowledge of the truth is available to all, even the lowliest, and that a moral life must accompany religious practice.
		In terms of a break in the lineage we should be fully aware that Hakuin was a fully ordained and acknowleged Zen monk and priest not just a rogue individual who established himself as a Zen Master.
	www.newsfinder.org /site/more/hakuin_zenji_hakuin_ekaku_1689_1769 (552 words)

	ZAZEN WASAN
		Hakuin was raised in a family belonging to the Nichirin Sect (J. Hokke Shu) whose focus is almost exclusively on the Lotus Sutra with the primary practice of chanting “namu myo ho renge kyo” (homage wondrous dharma Lotus Sutra).
		Hakuin’s awakening was truly that of the Buddha mind-nature and not based on doctrine, for throughout his life Hakuin never became a sectarian.
		Hakuin’s phrase “straight ahead runs the Way” is a pun of sorts taking the prosaic rendition of ekayana as the one vehicle and presenting it in the very poetic image using the meanings of eka as direct or straight ahead and yana as the running of the Way.
	home.pon.net /wildrose/zazenode.htm (8816 words)

	Hakuin : Poems and Biography
		The Zen master Hakuin Ekaku, sometimes called Hakuin Zenji, was born Sugiyama Iwajiro in a small Japanese coastal village at the foot of Mt. Fuji.
		Hakuin is credited with saving the tradition from its decline virtually single-handedly, returning Zen to its rich spiritual essence.
		Hakuin's reforms were highly effective, as seen by the profound impact Zen has in the world of spiritual practice today.
	www.poetry-chaikhana.com /H/Hakuin/index.htm (404 words)

	A Short Biography of Hakuin
		Sugiyama Iwajiro, known to posterity as the Zen Master Hakuin Ekaku, was born on January 19, 1686, in Hara, a small coastal village situated at the foot of Mt. Fuji on the Tokkaido Road between Edo (Tokyo) and Kyoto.
		Hakuin was especially critical of the "silent illumination heretics" and "do-nothings" who filled the monasteries and temples.
		Hakuin demanded three things from his monks: great faith in the Teaching, a great "ball of doubt", that is, energetic application to the koan, and finally, great tenacity of purpose.
	home.primus.com.au /davidquinn/Books/Hakuin/Hakuin08.html (4059 words)

	Zen Buddhism - Hakuin School
		The purpose of this document is to provide comprehensive, factual and up-to-date information about the Hakuin school of Rinzai Zen Buddhism.
		Hakuin => Gassan Jitou 1727-1797 => Inzan Ien, Shoto Ensho (1751-1814) => Taigen Gisan, Taigen Shigen (1768-1837) => Shoen Daisetsu, Daisetsu Jo'en, Daisetsu So'en (1797-1855) => Dokun Joshu, Ogino Dokuen, Doku'en Joju, (1819-1895) => Banryo Zenso => Joten Soko => Joshu Sasaki.
		This is also the lineage that is chanted in zen centers that study under Joshu Sasaki Roshi.
	www.ciolek.com /WWWVLPages/ZenPages/Hakuin.html (1456 words)

	International Newsletter\| Hakuin's Secret Teaching for Long Life and Health (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In it Hakuin tells of his encounter with a mountain ascetic who transmits to him the secret of long life and health.
		Hakuin Ekaku (1685-1768) was probably the most important Japanese Zen master of the last 500 years.
		Hakuin was plagued by poor health from his early childhood.
	www.wakayama-info.net /intl/archives/2001_01_000207.php (837 words)

	Ensouzu
		Hakuin's "Ensouzu" is liberally painted with a calm, controlled brush stroke in thick Chinese-style Indian ink.
		This perfect, unbroken circle, with no beginning and no end, is considered the ultimate shape to represent the highest level of truth and enlightenment in Zen Buddhism, understood by those who have released all emotional, psychological and physical reserve.
		Hakuin Ekaku ushered in a new era in Zen ascetic practices, in which he trained many monks, and accomplished a revival in the Rinzaishu Buddhist sect.
	www.pal.shogakukan.co.jp /english/line_up/sira/en.html (113 words)

	Studies: Hakuin Studies: Toward a Hakuin Studies: Introduction(IRIZ)
		The Zen master Hakuin Ekaku 白隠慧鶴 (1686-1769), famed as the reformer of the Japanese Rinzai Zen school, was a religious figure of exceptional stature.
		Hakuin 白隠: Rinzai Zen monk of the Edo period (1603-1868).
		Hakuin: Rinzai Zen monk of the middle Edo period (1603-1868).
	iriz.hanazono.ac.jp /k_room/k_room01a1.en.html (549 words)

	Amazon.fr : Wild Ivy: The Spiritual Autobiography of Zen Master Hakuin: Livres en anglais: Hakuin Ekaku,Norman Waddell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Perhaps the great value of this book is the human face that Hakuin manages to put on a centuries-old tradition by offering details from his own life.
		Through his merciless practice, Hakuin also experienced a physical deterioration, or "Zen sickness," and relates the storybook account of his ascending a remote mountain to glean the secret method of introspective meditation from a cave-dwelling hermit.
		An 18th-century Japanese Zen master considered the father of modern Rinzai Zen, Hakuin is best known as the author of the well-known koan "what is the sound of one hand clapping." His writing stresses, among other things, the central importance of zazen (seated meditation) in Zen practice.
	www.amazon.fr /Wild-Ivy-Spiritual-Autobiography-Master/dp/1570627703 (529 words)

	The Meaning of Hakuin’s Fuji Daimyo Gyoretsu Painting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Among these artists was the Zen master Hakuin Ekaku 白隠慧鶴 (1686-1769), who was born and raised in Hara, a small village at the foot of Mount Fuji’s southern slope, and who, after his Zen training, served as abbot of village temple Shoin-ji.
		In light of Hakuin’s sharp, clear disapproval of the processions, it is unlikely that he would have taken the time and care required to produce the Jisho-ji piece if he had inteded it as a mere landscape painting.
		Hakuin’s inscription does not mention the mountain directly, but in the first and second lines Hakuin makes the interesting statement that the picture is a representation of “the True Face of Bodhidharma.” This would normally lead one to expect a portrayal of the legendary transmitter of the Zen teachings from India to China.
	iriz.hanazono.ac.jp /newhomepage/fuji_tom/Untitled-1.htm (5153 words)

	Wild Ivy: The Spiritual Autobiography of Zen Master Hakuin by Hakuin Ekaku : Book
		Hakuin Ekaku the great reformer of Rinzai Zen in the Tokugawa,was a towering figure, a religious genius, whose rich spiritual insight expressed itself in countless ways - not only in his many Dharma talks and commentaries, but also in art.
		Hakuin's severity is often contrasted with Bankei's 'easy way' - his 'Unborn Zen,' but in truth, even Bankei had to exert himself - and did exert himself.
		Besides, if Hakuin is judged according to the methods of his predecessors - in Chinese Ch'an, the Chinese biographies reveal a similar pattern.
	www.crimsonbird.com /4/1570627703.html (1358 words)

	Hakuin Zenjis Song of Zazen
		In Hakuin Zenji’s Song of Zazen, when he begins “All sentient beings are essentially Buddhas” it is this mirror-like mind, this simple ability, which is studied and experienced.
		Continuing, Hakuin Zenji says “The gate of the oneness of cause and effect is thereby opened,” we let go of idle speculation and the mind which reflects a dualistic world with forms of good and bad.
		Hakuin Zenji says of this “The gate of the oneness of cause and effect is thereby opened.” Our world is a world where each and every person can awaken in this way.
	onedrop.mentalblocks.com /newsletter/nov2004_65.html (7004 words)

	Hakuin Ekaku [1685-1769] - Find, Price & Research on Artfact.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In this way Hakuin responded to the Tokugawa government’s lack of support for Zen; he reached out to people of all beliefs and levels of education through art that had both humour and dramatic impact.
		Hakuin Exhibition at Zen Museum of Hanazono University (Kyoto...
		HAKUIN Grupo Shunia M.Paz Hakuin Ekaku, mestre Rinzai, recebeu a...
	www.artfact.com /features/viewArtist.cfm?aID=42786 (583 words)

	Hakuin
		He transformed the Rinzai School, a school that emphasis sudden enlightenment (“complete and perfect sanity, or awareness of the true nature of the universe”) from a declining tradition that lacked rigorous practice into a tradition that focused on arduous meditation and koan practice.
		Shoju was an intensely demanding teacher, who hurled insults and blows at Hakuin, in an attempt to get him to reach satori ("deep" or lasting enlightenment.”).
		The most important and influential teaching of Hakuin was his emphasis on koan (“Zen story”) practice.
	www.ancientworlds.net /aw/Post/836906 (1822 words)

	thezensite: Secrets of the Blue Cliff Records book review
		Tenkei was a Soto master and Hakuin taught in the Rinzai tradition, so we can compare how these two outstanding teachers approached each koan from the viewpoint of the two sects that make up Japanese Zen.
		Hakuin was noted for his formidable, even terrifying, manner.
		Hakuin's teaching was based around the use of koans.
	www.thezensite.com /ZenBookReviews/secretsofbluecliff.htm (1298 words)

	Hakuin Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		The fiery and energetic Zen teachings of an important and beloved Japanese teacher and artist are explored here in an elegant book that uses calligraphy and painting to express the true nature of enlightenment.
		Hakuin Zenji (1689-1769) is a towering figure in Japanese Zen.
		Hakuin emphasized the importance of zazen, or sitting meditation, and is also...
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Hakuin (290 words)

	Hakuin Ekaku (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Hakuin Ekaku (jap 白隠慧鶴 Hakuin Ekaku; * 1686; † 1769) gilt als der Vater des modernen Rinzai, einer Richtung des Zen-Buddhismus, da er die seit dem 14.
		In seinen Schriften prangert er mit beißender Ironie die intellektualisierende Verwässerung der Zen-Praxis an, die sich damals im japanischen Zen abzeichnete.
		Hakuin war nicht nur ein hervorragender Zen-Meister, sondern auch ein bedeutender Maler, Kalligraphie-Meister und Bildhauer.
	www.jenskleemann.de /wissen/bildung/wikipedia/h/ha/hakuin_ekaku.html (147 words)

	Reflections on Zenga (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Perhaps most fascinating of all was the Zen nun Kojima Kendo (1898-1995), who successfully fought for the rights of female monastics in the Soto sect, led a training center and taught many followers, founded an orphanage after the Second World War, and took up calligraphy after she broke her hip at age ninety-two.
		As it happens, Zenga has usually been done by Masters at an advanced age (Hakuin's "early works" are those done in his sixties), but I do not know of a parallel to Kojima creating works almost entirely in her mid-nineties.
		Hakuin Ekaku's image of Daruma, painted a few years before his death in 1768 (fig.
	www.zenpaintings.com /reflections.htm (1786 words)

	Japanese Arts: Painting: Zen: Artists: Hakuin Ekaku
		I guess putting an image of his on the front page makes it obvious that I like Hakuin's work, but he's a giant figure in many senses.
		He's been called the most influential monk of the last 500 years, and this is as a writer and teacher rather than an artist.
		It's another case where I don't think that we have to hear his message to love the work.
	www.japanese-arts.net /painting/zen_hakuin.htm (249 words)

	Yasenkanna - Trattato Zen sulla Salute - Hakuin Ekaku Zenji (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Nello Yasenkanna, Hakuin narra le vicende e le modalità che lo condussero a contatto con l'eremita Hakuyu, dal quale ricevette l'insegnamento della Contemplazione Interiore, che gli consentì di recuperare la salute fisica e spirituale.
		Hakuin Ekaku (1685-1768) è una delle più grandi figure del Buddhismo giapponese.
		Dopo un periodo di profondo declino dello Zen, Hakuin, infatti, fu il primo a creare e organizzare il sistema basato sulla pratica del Koan, oggi così diffuso e perfezionato nella setta Rinzai, e svolse una vasta e profonda opera di volgarizzazione dei principi di questa dottrina.
	www.ilgiardinodeilibri.it /libri/__yasenkanna-trattato_zen_sulla_salute.php (141 words)

	sacrd objects
		Hakuin Ekaku is one of the central figures of Japanese Zen Buddhism.
		What is popularly known as Rinzai Zen is in large part derived from the teachings of Hakuin.
		A tireless, dedicated practitioner of the art of zazen, or meditation, Hakuin is also famous for his koans or Zen riddles, especially the now clichéd “What is the sound of one hand clapping.” He was also renowned for his poetry, beautiful calligraphy, and humorous caricatures of himself and other Zen masters.
	www.mysticsmasters.com /Hakuin.html (244 words)

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