Master Taixu (English: Master Taixu)

Japanese: 太虚大師 - たいきょたいし（英語表記）Tài xū dà shī

1890‐1947
A leader of modern Buddhist reform in China. His real name was Lu, and his given name was Kansen. He was from Chongde County, Zhejiang Province. He became a monk at the age of 16, and was ordained under the monk Ji Zen of the Tenryu Temple in Ningbo. He was deeply impressed by the works of the reformists in the late Qing Dynasty and aspired to save the country with Buddhism. He later had contact with the revolutionaries, and in 1912 he organized the China Buddhist Association in Nanjing. In 1914, he retreated to the Xilin Zen Temple in Putuo Mountain and studied the eight schools of Buddhism - Tiantai, Huayan, Hosso, Zen, Vinaya, Pure Land, Esoteric, and Sanron - and came to believe in the equality of all eight schools. In 1917, he organized the Jakusha Society with lay Buddhists such as Zhang Binglin, and published the monthly Jakusha Series (later renamed Kaichoyin).

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

1890‐1947
中国，現代の仏教改革の指導者。俗姓は呂，名は淦森。浙江省崇徳県の人。16歳で出家し，寧波（ニンポー）の天竜寺の寄禅和尚を師として受戒，清末改革派の著作に深く感銘して仏教救国を志し，のち革命派とも往来，1912年南京に中国仏教協進会を組織した。14年普陀山の錫林禅院にこもって，天台･華厳･法相･禅･律･浄土･密･三論の八宗を兼学して八宗平等の考えに達し，17年章炳麟ら在家仏徒と覚社を組織し，月刊《覚社叢書》(のち《海潮音》と改題)を刊行。

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