禅Masters

Nampo Gentaku

Nampo Gentaku — portrait unavailable

Sōtō

Nampo Gentaku

Dates uncertain

Lineage of Nampo GentakuSōtō school

Nampo Gentaku 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 · enNampo Gentaku

Disciples of Nampo Gentaku 1 named

Teachers and lineage of Nampo Gentaku

Teacher / root master:

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Teachings

  • proverbOld Temple, New Bell

    (traditional attribution)

    An old temple sometimes needs a new bell. The bronze remembers the casting; the air remembers the ringing. The students hear only the ringing — and that is enough.

    tr. Zen Lineage editorial

    Nampo Gentaku

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

4 supporting citations on record (see Sources above).

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