| 释义 |
‖ Rinzai, n.|rɪnˈzaɪ|
[Jap., ad. Chinese Lin-chi, the name of the place (now in Hebei province) at which the Zen master Yi-xuan (d. 867) lived. His teachings reached Japan in the 12th cent.]
One of the three principal branches of Zen Buddhism. Cf. Soto n., *Obaku 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. 1917A. K. Reischauer Stud. Japanese Buddhism iii. 117 The chief difference between the Soto and the Rinzai branches of the Zen sect is that the former puts more weight upon book learning as a subsidiary aid to silent meditation. 1949[see Soto n.]. 1978C. Humphreys Both Sides of Circle v. 57 From 1900 until his death in 1966 he worked unceasingly..to teach as much as can be taught in words of the purpose and remarkable technique of Rinzai Zen Buddhism. |