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Hōzan Kōei Chino

Hōzan Kōei Chino — portrait unavailable

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Hōzan Kōei Chino

Dates uncertain

Lineage of Hōzan Kōei ChinoSōtō school

Hōzan Kōei Chino (知野弘恵) was a Japanese Sōtō priest and head of Jōkō-ji in Kamo (Niigata Prefecture). He is the adoptive father and Dharma-transmission teacher of Kōbun Chino Otogawa, who was raised at Jōkō-ji after his birth father's death and received Dharma transmission (shihō) from Hōzan Kōei in 1962[1][2]. Kōbun went on to become one of the most influential Japanese Sōtō teachers in the postwar American transmission, founding Hōkō-ji (Taos, NM) and Jikoji (Santa Cruz Mountains), and an early teacher to Steve Jobs. The Eihei-ji training Kōbun undertook in his twenties under Kōdō Sawaki was a practice / onshi training, distinct from the shihō relationship with his adoptive father Hōzan Kōei[1].

Names

dharma · enHōzan Kōei Chino
dharma · ja知野弘恵
alias · enHozan Koei Chino
alias · enKoei Chino

Disciples of Hōzan Kōei Chino 1 named

Teachers and lineage of Hōzan Kōei Chino

Teacher / root master:

  • Kodo SawakiEditorial bridge: Hōzan Kōei Chino's own teacher and predecessor at Jōkō-ji are not yet seeded. The edge to Sawaki Kōdō anchors him in the contemporary mid-Shōwa Sōtō world rather than the 13th-century Dōgen root. Pending Japanese-source research into the Jōkō-ji succession register. · 1880 – 1965

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  • schoolmedium — one authoritative source

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