Soto

This source names Soto directly: "Francisco in 1959 as priest of a local Soto Zen temple."

This source names Soto directly: "for priests and ordained laymen of the Sōtō Zen sect of Buddhism," and naming the subject in the album's own title; and Stanford University Libraries' own SearchWorks catalogue record for the same..."

This source names Soto directly: "the head training temple of the Soto Zen sect in Fukui Prefecture, Japan, made by John Mitchell in 1957 from roughly fourteen hours of tape and first issued by Folkways Records in 1959 with liner..."

This source names Soto directly: "second volume tracing the Japanese Soto and Rinzai schools specifically through their documented historical development rather than presenting Zen as one undifferentiated tradition."

This source names Soto directly: "Gives per-sect figures: Soto with 14,718 temples and about 6.88 million adherents, Rinzai with 5,754 temples and 1.72 million adherents, Obaku with 460 temples and 353,070 adherents, totaling 21,037..."

Dogen rejected the reckoning of a latter age as an excuse, holding that the dharma is not weakened by the calendar and that sitting is as available now as it ever was.

Shikantaza, just sitting, is the Soto emphasis.

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Japanese Buddhist clergy have married openly since the Meiji government removed the prohibition in 1872, so the Soto priest keeps the ordination and not the celibate discipline the word originally named.

Shikantaza, just sitting, is the Soto emphasis.

The perfections are held in the Soto school.

Dogen prescribes the seal exactly in the Fukanzazengi, along with the tongue, the eyes and the breath, because in Soto the posture is not preparation for the practice but is the practice.

Soto practice makes the sewing of the robe itself a discipline, and the verse of the kesa is chanted before it is put on each morning.

Held in the Soto line.

The decree removed the legal prohibition on clerical marriage and meat eating, and married clergy became the norm in the Zen schools within two generations, without the schools teaching that the precept itself had changed.

Buddhahood is affirmed as realised in practice rather than after it, which follows from holding practice and realisation to be one.

Dogen's teaching that all existence is buddha-nature, rather than merely possessing it, distinguishes this school's reading.

This school, founded by Dogen, holds dharma transmission and sustained zazen practice as central.

The Heart Sutra is chanted in this school's daily liturgy alongside Dogen's own writings on zazen.

Dogen trained on Mount Hiei, and the question original enlightenment poses, why practise if awakening is already the ground, is the one his teaching that practice and realisation are one was framed to answer.

Kensho is affirmed in this school, though subordinated to Dogen's teaching that zazen itself is the expression of enlightenment, not merely its cause.

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Non-injury is held in the Soto school as the first of the precepts.

The three poisons are held in the Soto school.

Not-self is held in the Soto school, and Dogen's formula that to study the self is to forget the self is the school's best known statement of it.

Impermanence is held in the Soto school, and Dogen makes it the subject rather than the background of practice: being and time are treated as one question.

The bodhisattva motivation is held in the Soto school and is renewed in the four great vows.

Giving is held in the Soto school as the first of the perfections.

Dependent origination is held in the Soto school.

Dharma is held in the Soto school, and Dogen's writing is unusual among Zen literature for the weight it places on doctrinal exposition alongside the claim of a transmission outside the scriptures.

Suffering is held in the Soto school.

Karma is held in the Soto school.

Nirvana is held in the Soto school.

Collected absorption is held in the Soto school, and Dogen's recommendation of seated meditation presents it as the practice of awakening rather than as a means to it.

Samsara is held in the Soto school.

Emptiness is held in the Soto school.

The five aggregates are held in the Soto school.

The four immeasurables are held in the Soto school.

The four truths are held in the Soto school.

The eightfold path is held in the Soto school.

The six realms are held in the Soto school.

The three jewels and going for refuge are held in the Soto school.

The three marks are held in the Soto school.

The two truths are held in the Soto school as part of the Mahayana inheritance the school works within.

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