Daichō Hayashi (林大潮)

Daichō Hayashi

Dates uncertain

Daichō Hayashi (林大潮) was a Japanese Sōtō priest and head of Taizō-in in Fukui Prefecture in the mid-twentieth century. He is recorded in the Minnesota Zen Meditation Center's biographical materials on Dainin Katagiri as the master who ordained Katagiri as a monk at Taizō-in and named him Dharma heir on 24 December 1949 (denpō ceremony, Katagiri age 21)^[1]^[2]. Outside this Katagiri-transmission act, English-language biographical information on Hayashi is sparse; the immediate teachers and predecessors in his own line at Taizō-in are not yet documented in publicly accessible sources, and would require Japanese-language temple records to seed accurately^[2].

Names

dharma · enDaichō Hayashi

dharma · ja林大潮

alias · enDaicho Hayashi

alias · enHayashi Daichō

Disciples of Daichō Hayashi 1 named

Dainin Katagiriprimary · 1928 – 1990

Teachers and lineage of Daichō Hayashi

Teacher / root master:

Yōzan Genki HayashiYōzan Genki Hayashi was abbot of the original Taizō-in in Fukui City and took Daichō Hayashi in as a monk-novice. Daichō took the Hayashi surname from him and later moved the Taizō-in name to a small Kitada village temple. Per Andrea Martin, 'Ceaseless Effort: The Life of Dainin Katagiri' (MZMC) and Patheos / Great Tree Temple. · Dates uncertain

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Master Record Sources

biographyWikipedia - Zen Lineage Charts
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biographyMinnesota Zen Meditation Center - Ceaseless Effort: The Life of Dainin Katagiri
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