Yūkō Okamoto

Dates uncertain

Yūkō Okamoto Roshi is a Japanese Sōtō master based at Teishōji and an intimate of Taisen Deshimaru's later generation of senior European disciples — described in the AZI biographical record of Raphaël Dōkō Triet as "a friend of Master Deshimaru"^[1]. The publicly attested portion of his career runs principally through his role as a shihō-giving teacher for two of Deshimaru's senior heirs: he conferred dharma transmission on Raphaël Dōkō Triet in 1997^[1], and on Michel Meihō Reikū Bovay at Teishōji in 1998^[2]. Both transmissions anchor important branches of the AZI European Sōtō line — the Iberian / Andalusian Seikyūji and Lisbon networks (Triet) and the Swiss-German Zen Dōjō Zürich network (Bovay) — formally to the Japanese Sōtōshū through the Teishōji line.

Names

dharma · enYūkō Okamoto

alias · enOkamoto Roshi

alias · enYuko Okamoto

Disciples of Yūkō Okamoto 2 named

Raphaël Dōkō Trietsecondary · 1950 – Unknown
Michel Reikū Bovaysecondary · 1944 – 2009

Teachers and lineage of Yūkō Okamoto

Teacher / root master:

Kodo SawakiEditorial bridge: Yūkō Okamoto Rōshi inherited Teishōji (Saku, Nagano) via the temple-family succession; his father (the prior Teishōji abbot, not yet seeded) was a personal friend of Sawaki Kōdō, who used Teishōji as a sesshin venue. The edge to Sawaki anchors Okamoto in the 20th-century Sōtō reform milieu through the documented Teishōji–Sawaki connection rather than the 13th-century Dōgen root. · 1880 – 1965

Full lineage of Yūkō Okamoto →

Other masters in Sōtō

Koun Ejō1198 – 1280
Dōgen1200 – 1253
Jakuen1207 – 1299
Tettsū Gikai1219 – 1309
Keizan Jōkin1264 – 1325
Gasan Joseki1275 – 1366

Master Record Sources

biographyAssociation Zen Internationale — Find your practice location
Reliability: authoritative
biographyZen Dōjō de Lausanne — founded by Michel Reiku Bovay
Reliability: authoritative