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Sōtō Zen or the Sōtō school (曹洞宗, Sōtō-shū) is the largest of the three traditional sects of Zen in Japanese Buddhism (the others being Rinzai and Ōbaku)

Daibutsu. Nihon-ji was established as a Hossō sect temple, was transferred to the Tendai sect, and is now a Sōtō Zen temple. Since its founding the temple

izakaya, and a small karaoke bar. It also contains Fumonji, a temple of the Sōtō sect of Zen Buddhism, and Shimokitayama Junior High School. Ikemine Ikemine

in some Rinzai lineages today. Few Sōtō Zen practitioners concentrate on kōans during meditation, but the Sōtō sect has a strong historical connection

sessions became widespread. For example, in 1979 the Director-General of the Sōtō Sect of Buddhism made a speech at the "3rd World Conference on Religion and

Premier Prince Higashikuni in April 1950, with the help of his advisor and Sōtō-sect priest Ryukai Obara. The core of Higashikuni-Kyo was a mastery of Buddhism

Dōgen (1200–1253), who brought the Caodong school of Chan to Japan as the Sōtō sect of Zen. After an extended visit to China for the purpose of studying Chan

Zen Quarterly, the English language journal of the Soto Sect, disclosing the collusion of their sect in Japanese expansionism prior to and during World

was consecrated in 1606 as a Sōtō sect temple. In July 1624, the temple converted from the Sōtō sect to the Rinzai sect. Kōdai-in's brother Kinoshita

stimulated and encouraged certain Japanese masters of similar bent. In the Sōtō sect, for example, the Chinese teachers influenced the monastic codes of reformers