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Kokoku Soryu

Kokoku Soryu — portrait unavailable

Sōtō

Kokoku Soryu

Dates uncertain

Lineage of Kokoku SoryuSōtō school

Kokoku Soryu is recorded in the historiography of the medieval / early-modern Japanese Sōtō branch-temple network as a transmission figure in its lineage. The surviving record preserves his place in the line; little distinctive doctrinal material from his teaching is preserved in modern scholarship[1].

Names

dharma · enKokoku Soryu
alias · zh興国素隆

Disciples of Kokoku Soryu 1 named

Teachers and lineage of Kokoku Soryu

Teacher / root master:

Full lineage of Kokoku Soryu →

Other masters in Sōtō

Master Record Sources

  • birth datelow — based on hagiography or single popular source
  • death datelow — based on hagiography or single popular source
  • schoolmedium — one authoritative source

3 supporting citations on record (see Sources above).

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