Ōbaku
A living tradition within Chan. The disagreements in the sources are shown rather than settled.
Ōbaku is a living tradition within Chan. Also written Ōbakushū.
Origin
Founder named in the sources: Yinyuan Longqi / Ingen (1592–1673). No founding year is given below, because the sources read do not agree on one and a date has not been chosen for them. The Chan School entry dates the Japanese Ōbaku transmission to Chinese monks of the 1650s; the Pure Land Schools entry names Yinyan (Yinyuan) Longqi (1592–1673) as founder of the Ōbaku Zen school in Japan. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions counts Sōtō, Rinzai and Ōbaku as the three forms of Zen modified from Chinese forms.
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Citation
English
The language and the date you read it belong in the citation: this corpus is multilingual and articles are revised after publication.
John Shaqi. “Ōbaku.” English version. 11 August 2026. https://johnshaqi.com/articles/sect-obaku.
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author = {John Shaqi},
title = {Ōbaku},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {English version},
url = {https://johnshaqi.com/articles/sect-obaku},
note = {Accessed n.d.}
}The word count is counted from this edition. The minute estimate uses 238 words a minute, the silent reading rate for English non-fiction reported by Brysbaert (2019). The Urdu, Hindi and Roman Urdu editions carry a word count and no estimate, because no comparable rate has been published for those scripts.