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Hoju

Hoju
Association Bouddhiste Zen d'Europe (abzen.eu) — Silvia Hōju Leyer · courtesy of ABZE / fair use for educational identification

Sōtō

Hoju

Dates uncertain

Lineage of HojuSōtō school

Silvia Hoju Leyer is a German Sōtō Zen practitioner and, per the AZI / ABZE registry, a 2024 dharma heir of Roland Yuno Rech in Germany[1][2]. She is the chairperson (Vorsitzende) of Zendo Aachen e.V., the legal-association vehicle of the Kanjizai-Dōjō in Aachen co-founded in 1995 by Eveline Kogen Pascual, and has been at the centre of the dōjō's organisational and teaching life for many years[2][3].

Leyer is recorded by the AZI / ABZE roster as having received shihō from Roland Yuno Rech in 2024, the same year as Claus Heiki Bockbreder, becoming together with Pascual one of the two Aachen-based teachers in the Yuno Rech line[1][2]. Her teisho on Dōgen's *Bodaisatta Shishōbō* is archived on the ZenvoorA Belgian-Dutch Zen platform, indicating an active cross-border teaching role between the Rhineland and the Low Countries[3].

Names

dharma · jaHoju
alias · enSilvia Hoju Leyer
birth · deSilvia Leyer

Teachers and lineage of Hoju

Teacher / root master:

  • Roland RechShihō 2024 from Roland Yuno Rech per AZI / ABZE roster (https://abzen.eu/les-enseignants/) and the fr.wikipedia.org transmission table. Birth year and full pre-shihō chronology not independently verified beyond the Zendo Aachen Impressum naming her as Vorsitzende — birthConfidence set to low; the ABZE URL is cited directly in the transmission notes per the project's single-authoritative-source rule. · 1944 – 2024

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Other masters in Sōtō

Master Record Sources

  • birth datelow — based on hagiography or single popular source
  • death datehigh — multiple authoritative sources
  • schoolmedium — one authoritative source

3 supporting citations on record (see Sources above).

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