Yakuo Tokuken
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Yakuo Tokuken (1244 - May 29, 1320) was a Japanese Zen Buddhist monk, and poet.
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Quotes[edit]
- My six and seventy years are through.
I was not born, I am not dead.
Clouds floating on the high wide skies
The moon curves through its million-mile course.- Japanese Death Poems. Compiled by Yoel Hoffmann. ISBN 978-0-8048-3179-6, 2000. Cited in: Ken Jeremiah. Living Buddhas: The Self-Mummified Monks of Yamagata, Japan. 2010. p. 197
Quotes about Yakuo Tokuken[edit]
- Lah-chi Tao-lung (Rankei Dōryū) had many dharma heirs: among them were Nampo Jōmyō and Yaku'ō Tokuken 约翁德俭 (1245–1320), both of whom went to Sung-China. Yaku'ō's disciple, Jakushitsu Genkō 寂室元光 (1290–1367), also went to China and became later the founder of Eigen-ji.
- Yu-hsiu Ku. 2016 History of Zen. p. 49
External links[edit]
- Yoel Hoffmann (1986) (in en). Japanese Death Poems. Rutland: Tuttle Publishing. Wikidata Q116482757. ISBN 0-8048-1505-4. OCLC 1335736500.