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Issho Fujita | |
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Title | Priest, Director |
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Born | |
Religion | Zen Buddhism |
School | Sōtō |
Education | Tokyo University, Doctoral chose |
Senior posting | |
Teacher | Kōhō Watanabe |
Based in | Hayama, Kanagawa |
Website | http://fujitaissho.info/ |
Isshō Fujita (藤田 一照, Fujita Isshō, b. 18 April 1954) was born in Niihama, Ehime, Japan and was head teacher at Valley Zendo, a Sōtō Zen practice center in Charlemont, Massachusetts, USA. [1] Fujita had done studies in child psychology at Tokyo University Graduate School, but abandoned them and became a Zen monk. At the age of twenty-nine, on 8 December, Fujita was ordained a Zen priest, along with Ryōdō Yamashita, by Kōhō Watanabe at Antai-ji temple.
In 1987, Fujita assumed the role of abbot at Valley Zendo, where he lived until his return to Japan in 2005.
2010 - 2018, he was the Director of the Soto Zen International Center.
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Issho Fujita | |
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Title | Priest, Director |
Personal | |
Born | |
Religion | Zen Buddhism |
School | Sōtō |
Education | Tokyo University, Doctoral chose |
Senior posting | |
Teacher | Kōhō Watanabe |
Based in | Hayama, Kanagawa |
Website | http://fujitaissho.info/ |
Isshō Fujita (藤田 一照, Fujita Isshō, b. 18 April 1954) was born in Niihama, Ehime, Japan and was head teacher at Valley Zendo, a Sōtō Zen practice center in Charlemont, Massachusetts, USA. [1] Fujita had done studies in child psychology at Tokyo University Graduate School, but abandoned them and became a Zen monk. At the age of twenty-nine, on 8 December, Fujita was ordained a Zen priest, along with Ryōdō Yamashita, by Kōhō Watanabe at Antai-ji temple.
In 1987, Fujita assumed the role of abbot at Valley Zendo, where he lived until his return to Japan in 2005.
2010 - 2018, he was the Director of the Soto Zen International Center.