Mu'an

Mu'an (Chinese: 木庵性瑫; pinyin: Mù'ān Xìngtāo; Japanese Mokuan Shōtō) (1611–1684) was a Chinese Chan monk who followed his master Ingen to Japan in 1654. Mokuan was from Chuanchow in what was then Fukien Province.^[1] He and Sokuhi Nyoitsu were the two disciples most involved in spreading Ingen's teachings.^[1]

Portrait of Muyan.

History

Together they founded the Ōbaku Zen school and Mampuku-ji, the school's head temple at Uji in 1661. In 1664, Muyan succeeded his master as chief of the temple and in 1671 established another temple called Zuishō-ji at Shirokane, Edo. He is honored as one of the Ōbaku no Sanpitsu.

His work is kept in a variety of museums, including the Smart Museum of Art,^[2] University of Michigan Museum of Art,^[3][4] the Indianapolis Museum of Art,^[5] the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,^[6] and the British Museum.^[7]

See also

• Egoku Dōmyō
• Japanese Buddhism
• Obaku no Sanpitsu