Daiki Kyokan

Daiki Kyokan was a Soto Zen master who contributed to the tradition's development in Japan. He maintained the school's standards of practice and transmission, serving as a teacher within the Soto institutional framework.

Kyokan's role in the Soto lineage represents the tradition's emphasis on continuous, generation-to-generation transmission. The school holds that the Dharma can only be preserved through the living encounter between teacher and student, and that each generation bears the responsibility of maintaining the authenticity of this encounter.