Buddhist Masters and Their Organisations: Taisen Deshimaru Roshi. The Association brings together practitioners and dojos from Europe and beyond who adhere to Master Deshimaru's teaching and to membership in the Soto Zen school.
This represents more than 200 dojos and practice centers worldwide, though principally in Europe. Since its conception, the Association has facilitated the organization of many sesshin (intensive practice retreats) and other practice-related events, as well as the traditional ango (summer retreat) which is practiced annually by all Buddhist communities around the world. Biography: Born in the Saga Prefecture of Kyushu in 1914 of an old Samurai family, Taisen Deshimaru was raised by his grandfather, who was a Samurai Master before the Meiji Revolution, and by his mother, a devout follower of the Buddhist Shinshu sect. Though, unlike Kodo Sawaki before him, Deshimaru had a happy childhood, he was nonetheless tormented, even at an early age, by this ephemeral world of birth and death.
Taisen Deshimaru. Taisen Deshimaru (弟子丸 泰仙, Deshimaru Taisen?
, 29 November 1914 - April 30, 1982) was a Japanese Sōtō Zen Buddhist teacher, who founded the Association Zen Internationale. Biography[edit] La pagina web del Maestro Kosen y de su sangha - Budismo zen - Práctica de zazen.