Kodo Sawaki - Lineage

Lineage

Dharma transmission to:

Though Sawaki ordained many monks and nuns, only five monks and three nuns received Dharma Transmission (Shihō) from Sawaki:

• Shūyū Narita (1914-2004) who also had a few students in Europe,
• Kosho Uchiyama (1912-1998), who followed in his footsteps as abbot of Antai-ji,
• Sodō Yokoyama, also known as "kusabue zenji (Zen master with the grassflute)",
• Satō Myōshin, active in Japan,
• Kōjun Kishigami (born 1941), lives in Japan, has got students in Japan, France and Germany,
• Jōshin Kasai, died 1984 in Antai-ji,
• Kōbun Okamoto, alive in Ichi-no-miya, Japan, where she teaches kesa sewing,
• Baikō Fukuda.

Influential students:

Other influential students of Sawaki are:

• Gudō Wafu Nishijima (born 1919), teacher of Brad Warner
• Genkō Kawase (died. 1989), had her own temple Myōgen-ji in Nagoya,
• Sakai Tokugen, the teacher of Fumon Nakagawa, who teaches in Germany
• Kōun Enmyō (died 1980),
• Taisen Deshimaru (1914-1982), went to France in 1967, and established the Association Zen Internationale.