Sekkei Harada

About The Author

Sekkei Harada is the abbot of Hosshinji, a Soto Zen training monastery and temple, in Fukui Prefecture, near the coast of central Japan. He was born in 1926 in Okazaki, near Nagoya, and was ordained at Hosshinji in 1951. In 1953, he went to Hamamatsu to practice under Zen Master Gien Inoue, and received inkashomei (certification of realization) in 1957. In 1974, he was installed as resident priest and abbot of Hosshinji and was formally recognized by the Soto Zen sect as a certified Zen master (shike) in 1976. Since 1982, Harada has traveled abroad frequently, teaching in such countries as Germany, France, the United States, and India. He also leads zazen groups within Japan, in Tokyo and Saitama. From 2003-2005, he was Director of the Soto Zen Buddhism Europe Office located in Milan.

Books by Sekkei Harada

Unfathomable Depths

Drawing Wisdom for Today from a Classical Zen Poem

By Sekkei Harada
Introduction by Heiko Narrog and Hongliang Gu / Translated by Daigaku Rumme
Navigate a forgotten classic poem and enrich your practice with famed Zen master Sekkei Harada.
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The Essence of Zen

The Teachings of Sekkei Harada

By Sekkei Harada and Daigaku Rumme
The Essence of Zen is an expert's guided tour of the ins and outs of the tradition's approach to meditation, enlightenment, and the oneness of all things. To read it is to enter into one of modern Japanese Zen's most subtle and sophisticated minds. Sekkei Harada skillfully pushes us to drop those...
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