Shaku Daijo

Shaku Daijō (?–April 2018) was an American Rinzai Zen priest ordained by **Sōkō Morinaga** in 1979 and the co-founder of **Daishu-in West**, the residential Rinzai monastery established with Morinaga and Ursula Jarand in 1994 on a forested site in Garberville, Humboldt County, California^[1]. The community was conceived as a Western extension of Morinaga's Kyoto temple, Daishū-in, and was staffed and trained according to the Daitoku-ji sōdō pattern Morinaga had himself received from Oda Sessō^[1].

Daijō served as Daishu-in West's first abbot from its founding until his death in April 2018, after which the abbotship passed to his student Shaku Kōjyū^[1].