Sobin Yamada

Sobin Yamada was the 26th abbot of Shinju-an, a subtemple of the Rinzai Zen temple of Daitoku-ji in Kyoto.^[1] Shinju-an is the memorial temple for Ikkyu. Yamada studied at Hanazono, a Rinzai university in Kyoto, and at Ryukoku University.^{[citation needed]}

Sobin Yamada
Title	Roshi
Personal life
Born	1920 (1920)[1] Japan
Died	2008 (aged 87–88)[1]
Nationality	Japanese
Education	Hanazono Ryukoku University
Religious life
Religion	Buddhism
School	Rinzai

There is a calligraphic work by Yamada in the Asian Art Museum (San Francisco); it was commissioned by Yoshiko Kakudo for the museum.^[1][2]

Yamada was born in 1920 and died in 2008.^[1]

Bibliography

• Zen at Daitoku-ji (1974), with Dr. Jon Carter Covell^[3]
• Unraveling Zen's Red Thread: Ikkyu's Controversial Way (1980), Dr. Jon Carter Covell and Abbot Sobin Yamada, 1980, HollyM International, Elizabeth, New Jersey, ISBN 0-930878-19-1^[4]

See also

• Buddhism in Japan
• List of Rinzai Buddhists