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Shodo Harada (原田正道, Shodo Harada? c. 1940), or Harada Roshi, is a Rinzai priest, author, and head abbot of Sogenji—a three hundred year old temple in Okayama, Japan. He has become known as a teacher of teachers, with masters from various lineages coming to sit sesshin with him in Japan or during his trips to the United States and Europe. He began his training in 1962 under Rinzai master and Japanese calligrapher Yamada Mumon, from whom he received Dharma transmission in 1982. He frequently holds retreats at One Drop Zendo on Whidbey Island in Island County, Washington. Were he to take residence there, as has been planned over the years, it would mark a major step for the establishment of the Rinzai sect in the United States. Among those Western teachers that have sat with Harada is Jan Chozen Bays.[1][2][3]
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Shodo Harada was born into a Zen temple in 1940 in Nara, Japan. While still in high school he encountered his teacher, Yamada Mumon, while running an errand for his father to Myoshinji. He was impressed by how little he knew of Buddhism at this encounter, so after college he entered Shofukuji and trained under Mumon. Sometime during the 1980s he was sent by Mumon to Sogen-ji to help an elderly abbot tend to the building and training schedules. In 1989, Harada came to the United States to provide instruction for students and in 1995 founded One Drop Zendo (or, Tahoma One Drop Zen Monastery) on Whidbey Island in Island County, Washington (where the practice mirrors the practices found at Sogen-ji). Nearby the Tahoma One Drop Monastery, Harada has opened a hospice known as Enso House in 2001.[4]
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- ^ Seager, 191-192
- ^ Ford, 116
- ^ King, 44-45
- ^ Senauke
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