Ogino Dokuon

Ogino Dokuon was a Rinzai rshi remembered for his daring resistance to religious oppression directed toward Buddhists during the late Tokugawa period and Meiji period of Japan. He received Dharma transmission from his teacher Daisetsu Shen and later became abbot of Shkokuji in 1879. In 1872 he was appointed director of Daikyin, which was an institution of the Meiji government set up that same year in order to promote the prompt modernization of the nation. Guised as an organization promoting the Great Teaching consisting of Confucian ethics and Shintoism scholar Heinrich Dumoulin states that, ...one is hard put to find anything Buddhist there. It is no surprise, therefore, that the Buddhists were not very happy with this new decree, even though it did give them a participatory voice in policy matters and introduced a new organizational order. As leader of Daikyin Dokuon protested these policies to the government, though with virtually no effect. Even still, he was one of the most o

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