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Senso Esai

Senso Esai — portrait unavailable

Sōtō

Senso Esai

1409 – 1475

Lineage of Senso EsaiSōtō school

Senso Esai (1409–1475) is recorded in the historiography of the medieval / early-modern Japanese Sōtō branch-temple network as an abbot in its transmission lineage. The surviving record preserves his lineage placement; little distinctive doctrinal material from his teaching is preserved in modern scholarship[1].

Names

dharma · enSenso Esai

Disciples of Senso Esai 1 named

Teachers and lineage of Senso Esai

Teacher / root master:

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Other masters in Sōtō

Master Record Sources

  • birth datehigh — multiple authoritative sources
  • death datehigh — multiple authoritative sources
  • schoolmedium — one authoritative source

4 supporting citations on record (see Sources above).

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