Dainin Katagiri
| Jikai Dainin Katagiri | |
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| School | Sōtō |
| Education | Komazawa University |
| Other names | Hojo-san Katagiri |
| Personal | |
| Nationality | Japan |
| Born |
January 19, 1928 Osaka, Japan |
| Died | March 1, 1990 (aged 62) |
| Spouse | Tomoe Katagiri |
| Children | Yasuhiko Ejyo |
| Senior posting | |
| Based in | Minnesota Zen Meditation Center |
| Title | Roshi |
| Religious career | |
| Teacher | Daicho Hayashi Eko Hashimoto |
| Students | Steve Hagen |
Jikai Dainin Katagiri (片桐 大忍 Katagiri Dainin?, January 19, 1928 – March 1, 1990), also known as Hojo-san Katagiri, was a Sōtō Zen roshi and the founding abbot of Minnesota Zen Meditation Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he served from 1972 until his death from cancer in 1990. Before becoming first abbot of the Minnesota Zen Meditation Center, Katagiri had worked at the Zenshuji Soto Zen Mission in Los Angeles and had also been of great service to Shunryu Suzuki at the San Francisco Zen Center, particularly from 1969 until Suzuki's death in 1971. Katagiri was important in helping bring Zen Buddhism from Japan to the United States during its formative years—especially to the American Midwest. He is also the credited author of several books compiled from his talks, the two most prominent being Returning to Silence: Zen Practice in Daily Life (1988) and You Have to Say Something: Manifesting Zen Insight (1998).
Dainin Katagiri was born in Osaka, Japan on January 19, 1928. He was ordained a monk by Daicho Hayashi at Taizo-in in Fukui, and went on to study under Eko Hashimoto at Eiheiji for three years. After Eiheiji Katagiri enrolled at Komazawa University—the renowned Sōtō institution in Tokyo, Japan—majoring in Buddhist studies. In 1963 Katagiri was sent by the Soto Headquarters Office in Japan to Los Angeles, California to serve as a priest at the Zenshuji Soto Zen Mission. In 1965 he was sent to the Sokoji Soto Zen Mission in San Francisco, California to assist Shunryu Suzuki and later helped out the San Francisco Zen Center (SFZC), which had shared the same building as Sokoji until 1969; Katagiri was of great help to Shunryu Suzuki, especially from 1969 onward. During his years in San Francisco, Katagiri sometimes toyed with the idea of opening up his own Zen community nearby. So, not long before Suzuki's death, he did open a zendo in his home in Monterey, California.
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