László Toryu Kálmán
László Toryu Kálmán
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László Toryu Kálmán is a Hungarian Sōtō Zen monk in the Deshimaru–Zeisler lineage and one of three teachers on whom Yvon Myōken Bec conferred dharma transmission (shihō) in 2016 — the formal continuation of the line that Étienne Mokushō Zeisler had entrusted to Bec at Zeisler's death in 1990[1].
Kálmán teaches at the Sümegi Mokushō Zen Dōjō in western Hungary, part of the Mokushō Zen House network whose Hungarian centre of gravity is the Taisen-ji temple in Budapest (where the Hungarian sangha settled in 2000)[1][2]. He leads regular zazen, day-long sittings combining zazen with formal oryoki meals and ceremony, and introductory retreats open to practitioners with no prior Buddhist background — the same patient ground-level pedagogy that Bec had brought to Hungary in the early 1990s when Western Buddhist practice was almost unknown in the country[2].
With Vuillemin (Geneva), Avila (Geneva / Ecuador), and Nedelcu (Bucharest), Kálmán is one of the four shihō-bearing continuing teachers of Mokushō Zen House — and the one whose work is most directly rooted in the Hungarian soil where Zeisler's mission was first transplanted[1].
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- biographyMokusho Zen House Budapest — Our Story (Étienne Mokushō Zeisler & the Eastern European mission)
1995 The first Hungarian dojo was founded in Budapest, Ilka street. … 2000 The Hungarian Sangha settled in the Taisenji zen temple, Budapest. … 2016 monk Myoken gave Dharma transmission to three disciples in the Deshimaru-Zeisler lineage: Maria Teresa Shogetsu Avila, Ionut Koshin Nedelcu and László Toryu Kálmán.
- biographyWikipedia - Zen Lineage Charts
László Toryu Kálmán — Zen Buddhist master based in Budapest, Hungary; received Dharma transmission in 2016 from Monk Myoken in the Deshimaru-Zeisler lineage; leads zazen at the Sümegi Mokusho Zen Dojo with day-long sittings, oryoki meals, and ceremonies, no prior Buddhist experience necessary.