Egoku Domyo

In this Japanese name, the surname is Egoku.

Egoku Dōmyō
慧極道明
Title	Priest
Personal life
Born	1632 Japan
Died	1721 (aged 88–89)
Nationality	Japanese
Religious life
Religion	Zen Buddhism
School	Ōbaku

Egoku Dōmyō (慧極 道明, 1632–1721) was an Ōbaku priest, ordained at the age of nine into the Rinzai sect. In 1650, he met Tao-che—the Abbot of Sofuku-ji—in Nagasaki, Japan and subsequently joined his temple. Later he joined the assembly at Mampuku-ji in 1663, following the death of Tao-che. There he trained under his master's teacher Yin-Yuan and his disciple, Mu-an. He was ordained an Obaku monk in 1665 at the temple, receiving inka from Mu-an—Mu-an's second Dharma transmission. He founded and/or restored some twelve temples after receiving inka, and in 1687 served as Abbot at Zuisho-ji. He made forty-two Dharma heirs during his life.

References

• Baroni, Helen Josephine (2000). Obaku Zen: The Emergence of the Third Sect of Zen in Tokugawa, Japan. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 0-8248-2243-9.
• Heine, Steven; Dale S. Wright (2000). The Koan: Texts and Contexts in Zen Buddhism. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-511748-4.