BIOGRAPHY OF TAISEN DESHIMARU
Taisen
Deshimaru was born in Japan of an old samurai family, and he received from the
Great Master Kodo Sawaki the Transmission of Mind to Mind when Sawaki died. In
1967, Deshimaru-Roshi went to France and taught as missionary general of the Soto
Zen School until his death in 1982. In Europe he learnt how to make Oriental concepts
understandable to the Western mind. He published around twenty books in various
European languages and gathered a following of many thousands from all over the
world, including some of the most sophisticated minds of the West.
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