| 释义 |
‖ Obaku, n.|obaku|
Also (in early use) Oobate.
[Jap. Ōbaku, f. the name of the monastery near Kyoto at which Ingen (see def.) was superior, named after the monastery to which he belonged in mainland China (in turn named after a master (Chinese Huang Po, d. c 850) of the pre-Rinzai school.]
One of the three principal branches of Zen Buddhism, founded in Japan by the Chinese monk Ingen c 1661. Cf. *Rinzai n., Soto n.
1833Chinese Repository Nov. (1834) II. 323 There are now in Japan the following sects.. 1. Zen; of which there are three subdivisions, viz. Rinzai, Syootoo, and Oobate, named after Chinese monks. 1894Trans. Asiatic Soc. Japan XXII. 430 The Zen sects..are divided..into three divisions. The Rinzai..from 1168 A.D., the Sōtō from 1223 A.D. and the Obaku from 1650 A.D. 1949[see Soto n.]. 1957Encycl. Brit. XII. 955/1 The Zen sect (with its three branches Rinzai, Soto and Obaku) won great favour with the samurai or warrior knights of Japan. |