释义 |
‖ Soto|ˈsəʊtəʊ| [Jap.] One of the three sects of Zen Buddhism. Freq. attrib.
1893S. Kuroda Outlines Mahâyâna vi. 24 Dôgen introduced the Sôtô sect, 2176 after Buddha, or 1227 A.D. 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. in 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. 1949C. Humphreys Zen Buddhism v. 91 It is in Japan that Zen can best be studied, and although there are three sects of Zen, the Rinzai, Soto and Obaku, there is little difference between them. 1977‘E. V. Cunningham’ Case of One-Penny Orange (1978) iii. 29, I am Zen. The Soto School. |