Kokoku Soryu

Kokoku Soryu was a Soto Zen master who served in the school's transmission lineage. He maintained the tradition's practices of zazen and dharma transmission, contributing to the Soto school's continuity.

Soryu's place in the Soto lineage represents the tradition's steady, generation-by-generation maintenance of practice and transmission. The school's enduring vitality testifies to the cumulative dedication of teachers like Soryu, each faithfully preserving and passing forward the essential teaching.