Yamada Koun
Male, Deceased Person
1907 – 1989
Who was Yamada Koun?
Yamada Koun Zenshin, or Koun Yamada, was the former leader of the Sanbo Kyodan lineage of Zen Buddhism, the Dharma heir of his teacher Yasutani Haku'un Ryoko. Yamada was appointed the leader of the Sanbo Kyodan in 1967, 1970 or 1973 and continued to differentiate the lineage from other Japanese Zen traditions by deemphasizing the separation between laypeople and the ordained—just as his teacher Yasutani had done. Yamada was also instrumental in bringing Christians to the practice of Zen that “by the end of Yamada’s teaching career approximately one quarter of the participants at his sesshins were Christians”.
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- Born
- 1907
Nihonmatsu - Children
- Religion
- Buddhism
- Nationality
- Japan
- Lived in
- Fukushima Prefecture
- Died
- 1989
Kamakura
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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