Shaku Kojyu

Dates uncertain

Shaku Kōjyū is a Rinzai Zen priest ordained in Kyoto in 2008 in the Daishū-in line of Sōkō Morinaga, and since 2018 the second abbot of **Daishu-in West** in Garberville, California^[1]. He succeeded the monastery's founder-abbot **Shaku Daijō** on Daijō's death in April 2018 and now leads the residential training schedule that Morinaga and Daijō established as a Western extension of the Daishū-in sōdō^[1].

Names

dharma · enShaku Kojyu

alias · enKojyu Shaku

alias · enShaku Kōjyū

Teachers and lineage of Shaku Kojyu

Teacher / root master:

Shaku DaijoRoot teacher / master · Dates uncertain

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Other masters in Rinzai

Myoan Eisai1141 – 1215
Shinchi Kakushin1207 – 1298
Koho Kakumyo1271 – 1361
Kanzan Egen1277 – 1360
Shuho Myocho1282 – 1337
Tetto Giko1295 – 1369

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Shaku Kojyu
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Rinzai
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Shaku Daijo
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