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Oda Sessō (小田 雪窓, 1901—1966)[2] was a Rinzai roshi and abbot of the Daitoku-ji(大徳寺) in Kyoto, Japan, a Dharma successor of Goto Zuigan. He was elected abbot of Daitoku-ji upon Goto's retirement from that post in 1955. At Goto's request, Oda opened Daitoku-ji to foreigners. His western students included Gary Snyder[3][4], Janwillem de Wetering, Irmgard Schloegl, and Philip Yampolsky. Snyder described him as "the subtlest and most perceptive man I've ever met....His teisho were inaudible, his voice was so soft. Yet as one of the head monks at Daitoku-ji Sodo said much later, 'Those lectures of Oda Roshi we couldn't hear I am beginning to hear today.'"[5]
[edit] See also
- ^ Stirling 2006, pg. 125
- ^ Stirling 2006, pg. 50
- ^ Snyder 1980, pp. 97, 98
- ^ Kraft 1988, p. 20
- ^ Stirling 2006, pp. 74-5
[edit] References
- Kraft, Kenneth; Morinaga, Soko. Zen, Tradition and Transition (1988) Grove Press. ISBN 080213162X
- Snyder, Gary. The Real Work: Interviews & Talks, 1964-1979 (1980) New Directions Publishing. ISBN 0811207617
- Stirling, Isabel. Zen Pioneer: The Life & Works of Ruth Fuller Sasaki (2006) Shoemaker & Hoard. ISBN 978-1-59376-110-3
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