Sobin Yamada

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox religious biography Sobin Yamada was the 26th abbot of Shinju-an, a subtemple of the Rinzai Zen temple of Daitoku-ji in Kyoto.<ref name="Museum"/> Shinju-an is the memorial temple for Ikkyu. Yamada studied at Hanazono, a Rinzai university in Kyoto, and at Ryukoku University.Template:Cn

There is a calligraphic work by Yamada in the Asian Art Museum (San Francisco); it was commissioned by Yoshiko Kakudo for the museum.<ref name="Museum"/><ref name="Mellott-2017">Template:Cite journal</ref>

Yamada was born in 1920 and died in 2008.<ref name="Museum"/>

Bibliography

• Zen at Daitoku-ji (1974), with Dr. Jon Carter Covell<ref name="Zainie-1977">Template:Cite journal</ref>
• Unraveling Zen's Red Thread: Ikkyu's Controversial Way (1980), Dr. Jon Carter Covell and Abbot Sobin Yamada, 1980, HollyM International, Elizabeth, New Jersey, Template:ISBN<ref name="Kodera-1985">Template:Cite journal</ref>

See also

• Buddhism in Japan
• List of Rinzai Buddhists

References

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