Soko Morinaga
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| Soko Morinaga | |
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| Born: | 1925 |
| Place of birth: | Japan |
| Died: | 1995 |
| School(s): | Rinzai |
| Title(s): | Roshi |
| Predecessor(s): | Goto Zuigan |
| Successor(s): | Venerable Myokyo-ni |
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Soko Morinaga (盛永 宗興, 1925-1995) was a Rinzai Zen roshi. He was head of Hanazono University and abbot of Daishu-in in Kyoto, one of the twenty-four sub-temples of the Daitoku-ji temple complex.
He began his Zen training in his early twenties at Daishuin under Goto Zuigan, formerly abbot of Myoshin-ji and at that time abbot of Daitoku-ji, after finding himself adrift at the end of World War II. Later, he became head monk of Daitoku-ji. He was Dharma successor to Oda Sesso-roshi, who was also a disciple of Zuigan Goto Roshi and who succeeded him as abbot of Daitoku-ji.
He had a number of Western students and made frequent visits to England to teach at the Buddhist Society's annual summer school. In 1984 he ordained Venerable Myokyo-ni, head of the Zen Centre closely affiliated to the Buddhist Society, and who had trained at Daitoku-ji while he was head monk there.
His autobiography, Novice to Master: An Ongoing Lesson in the Extent of My Own Stupidity was first published in English in 2002.
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- Pointers to Insight: Life of a Zen Monk (1985)
- The Ceasing of Notions: Zen Text from the Tun-Huang Caves (with Ven. Myokyo-ni and M. Bromley, 1988)
- Novice to Master: An Ongoing Lesson in the Extent of My Own Stupidity (2002)
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