Monks Philip Kapleau

Who is Monks Philip Kapleau?
Zen master Philip Kapleau is considered a person with particularly important merits in spreading Buddhism in general and Zen Buddhism in particular in the United States.
In his ups and downs in his life since he decided to follow this path. In Buddhism, he experienced many hardships. From learning Japanese to be able to join a Buddhist temple in Japan to learning harsh precepts and a poor diet. But those things did not affect his determination much.
And what he achieved after many years of cultivation, he attained enlightenment and was sealed by Zen master Yasutani with the title of "Zen master". It was also from here that he officially went on his missionary path to the West.
He was the first person allowed to transcribe lectures on Zen. That helped him to enter the Zen classics of the West. Through the process of recording and compiling, he released the book "Three Pillars of Zen". This book has been published and published all over the world.
In June 1966, with the help of businessman Carlson, he established the Rochester Meditation Center, which attracted a large number of American meditators. attended.
After that, he made many trips to teach Zen throughout the United States and then to Germany, France and Poland,...
With his extensive knowledge of Zen Buddhism and his humorous way of teaching. funny and witty Zen master Philip Kapleau has attracted many people to join and love Zen Buddhism.
On May 6, 2004, when he was 92 years old, he passed away peacefully in the backyard of Zen Buddhism. Rochester Institute which he had painstakingly built in the arms of disciples and friends.

Philip Kapleau had worked in many professions before going to carry out the propagation of Buddhism. When he was young, he worked as an accountant in a store, after a while he attended law school and applied for a job as a reporter in a federal court in Connecticut.
During his career as a reporter. he experienced good and evil in war trials. He participated in two war crimes trials of the International Military Court in Nuremberg, Germany and the war crimes trial in Tokyo, Japan. Here he noticed a difference in the people of the Japanese. They are willing to accept their own suffering to pay for the pain they have caused others. Besides, he also noticed the peace and tranquility of Japan. To explain that he started to find out. And one thing that surprised him was their belief in the "Law of Karma". From there, he became interested in Buddhism and followed the path of becoming a Zen master.

Zen master Philip Kapleau was born into a working-class Protestant family in New Haven, Connecticut, in the northeastern United States.

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When was Monks Philip Kapleau born?
Philip Kapleau was born in ?-?-1912, death day is 06/05/2004, at the age of 92.
Where is Monks Philip Kapleau's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Philip Kapleau was born in United States. Mr, whose Zodiac is (don't know), and who Chinese Zodiac is The Rat. Philip Kapleau's global rank is 89495 and whose rank is 35 in list of famous Monks.

Portrait of Zen Master Philip Kapleau

Zen Master Philip Kapleau and The Three Pillars of Zen

Zen Master Philip Kapleau and His Disciples