Harada Daiun Sogaku
Title	Rōshi
Personal
Born	(1871-10-13)October 13, 1871 Obama, Japan
Died	December 12, 1961(1961-12-12) (aged 90)
Religion	Zen Buddhism
School	Sōtō
Education	Komazawa University
Senior posting
Successor	Hakuun Yasutani Harada Tangen

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Daiun Sogaku Harada (原田 大雲祖岳, Harada Daiun Sogaku, October 13, 1871 – December 12, 1961) was a Sōtō Zen monk who trained under both Sōtō and Rinzai teachers. He became known for his teaching combining methods from both schools.^[1] The Harada–Yasutani zen lineage founded by his disciple Hakuun Yasutani has become one of the major Zen traditions in the West. He is known as the "Great Cloud".

Born in an area known today as Obama, Fukui Prefecture, he entered a Sōtō temple as a novice at age 7 and continued training in temples during his primary and high school years. Haunted by existential questions, at age 20 he entered Shogen-ji, a well-known Rinzai monastery; it is reported that he experienced kensho after two and half years there.^{[citation needed]} In 1901 he graduated from Komazawa University (then Sōtō-shu Daigakurin), the Sōtō university.

He eventually studied under various Sōtō-priests such as Harada Sodo Kakusho,^[2] Oka Sotan, Akino Kodo, Adachi Tatsujun, Hoshimi Tenkai, and Rinzai-priests such as Unmuken Taigi Sogon and Kogenshitsu Dokutan Sosan, with whom he completed koan-study. From the years of 1911 to 1923, Harada held a professor position at Soto-shu Daigakurin.

A very strict disciplinarian, he served as abbot at various Sōtō temples throughout Japan: Hosshin-ji, Chisai-in, Bukkoku-ji, Sōji-ji and Chigen-ji. Until almost age 90, he conducted week-long sesshin at Hosshin-ji 6 times a year; he also held sesshin elsewhere.^{[citation needed]}

Harada Roshi's teaching integrated the Rinzai use of Kōan, a practice which was abolished in the Sōtō-school in the 19th century under influence of Gento Sokuchu (1729–1807).^[3] He also departed from the Sōtō conventions of his day by training lay persons with monks rather than separately.

A well-known heir in the West is Hakuun Yasutani Rōshi, a Sōtō monk who he also trained in koan study. This led ultimately to the spread of combined Sōtō and Rinzai methods by the Sanbo Kyodan (today Sanbo-Zen International), Zen-community founded by Yasutani which became influential in the West. Harada himself, however, remained within the Sōtō sect. It is often claimed in the West that he received Rinzai inka shomei (dharma transmission) from Dokutan Rōshi; he didn't, as he didn't want to leave the Soto-sect.^{[note 1]}

Harada Rōshi may be viewed as an eclectically talented Sōtō teacher who did not abide by sectarian boundaries in regard to practice method.

Harada has been criticized for his support of the Japanese War-endeavors.^[4] A famous quote from Harada, cited in Zen at War, is:

[If ordered to] march: tramp, tramp, or shoot: bang, bang. This is the manifestation of the highest Wisdom [of Enlightenment]. The unity of Zen and war of which I speak extends to the farthest reaches of the holy war [now under way].^[5][6]

Nonetheless, Japanese support for the war effort is frequently misunderstood by westerners unfamiliar with Japanese history & culture. For example, it is often overlooked that Japanese viewed themselves as “liberating” Asia from western imperialism, a perspective that justified the war in the minds of many Japanese people at the time. Furthermore, anyone familiar with Zen Buddhist history in Japan knows that Zen was hugely associated with traditional Samurai warrior culture… so that the idea of a Zen monk embracing militarism is not as “out of character” as interpreted by Brian Victoria. In fact the above quote by Harada is taken wholly out of the context of the Zen Buddhist world view: that everything is an illusion, and therefore doing “one’s duty” in whatever situation, is free of any moral or ethical judgment; which is still a common cultural outlook in Japan today

Dharma-heirs from Harada Roshi are:^[7]

• Hakuun Yasutani Rōshi, founder of Sanbo Kyodan
• Harada Tangen Rōshi Head of Bukkoku-ji temple;
• Ban Tetsugyu Soin Rōshi, Head of Tosho-ji temple in Tokyo;
• Watanabe Genshu, Head of Soji-ji temple among others.

• Buddhism in Japan

• Harada (Daiun) Sogaku (1871-1961) (autobiographical essay)
• Sanbo Kyodan teachers and heirs Sanbo Kyodan: Harada-Yasutani School of Zen at the WWW Virtual library (Edited by Dr T. Matthew Ciolek)
• Dharma Transmission and the Rochester Zen Center Lineage