Antai-ji
Antai-ji 安泰寺 | |
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Religion | |
Affiliation | Sōtō |
Leadership | Nakamura Ekō |
Location | |
Location | 62 Kutoyama, Shin'onsen-chō, Mikata District, Hyōgo Prefecture |
Country | Japan |
Geographic coordinates | 35°35′48″N 134°34′33″E / 35.59654°N 134.57576°E |
Architecture | |
Founder | Oka Sōtan |
Completed | 1921 1976 (relocation) |
Website | |
Antai-ji homepage |
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Antai-ji (安泰寺) is a Buddhist temple that belongs to the Sōtō school of Zen Buddhism. It is located in the town of Shin'onsen, Mikata District, in northern Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, where it sits on about 50 hectares of land in the mountains, close to a national park on the Sea of Japan. It accepts visitors in the summer months, but is inaccessible during the winter due to heavy snow.
Kyoto
Antai-ji was founded in 1921 by Oka Sotan as a
The increase of visitors and the many new houses being built around the temple created much noise, which made it difficult for the practice of Zazen to continue at the Kyoto location. Therefore, the following abbot, Watanabe Koho (1942–2016), decided to move Antai-ji to its present location in northern Hyōgo. The temple was later demolished, and all that remains of the original Antai-ji is a fenced-off stone under a maple tree that used to be part of the temple garden just outside the abbot's room. It contains a memorial to
Northern Hyōgo
Together with the quietude of the mountains, the seventh abbot Kōhō Watanabe sought a new lifestyle that would bring Zen back to self-sufficiency when he moved Antai-ji to its present location. The eighth abbot Shinyu Miyaura (1948–2002) protected this quiet life of Zazen while putting the ideal of a self-sufficient monastery into practice, until his sudden death in the snow in February 2002. His disciple, the German monk
Antaiji’s abbots and abbesses
- Founding abbot: Oka Sōtan
- Second abbot: Odagaki Zuirin
- Third abbot: Kishizawa Ian
- Fourth abbot: Etō Sokuō
- Fifth abbot: Sawaki Kōdō
- Sixth abbot: Uchiyama Kōshō
- Seventh abbot: Watanabe Kōhō
- Eighth abbot: Miyaura Shinyū
- Ninth abbot: Muhō Nölke
- Tenth abbess: Nakamura Ekō
References
- ^ "Antaiji's History". Antaiji. Retrieved 30 September 2018.
Bibliography
- Kōshō Uchiyama, Nakiwarai no Takuhatsu, Laughter Through the Tears: a life of mendicant begging in Japan
- Kosho Uchiyama, Opening the Hand of Thought
- Arthur Braverman, Living and Dying in Zazen: Five Zen Masters of Modern Japan
External links
- Antai-ji homepage
- Antai-ji's channel on YouTube