Hugo Enomiya-Lassalle

The way The "goal" Background Chinese texts Classical Post-classical Contemporary Zen in Japan Seon in Korea Thiền in Vietnam Western Zen Hugo Makibi Enomiya-Lassalle (11 November 1898[1] in Gut Externbrock near Nieheim, Westphalia – 7 July 1990[1] in Münster, Westphalia) was a German Jesuit priest and one of the foremost teachers to embrace both Roman Catholic Christianity and Zen Buddhism.

At the end of the usual Jesuit spiritual and academic training he was ordained priest on 28 August 1927.

In September 1946, he had an audience with Pope Pius XII, in which he revealed his plan to build in Hiroshima a cathedral dedicated to the idea of world peace.

[5] With Enomiya-Lassalle's active assistance, he attracted a number of Catholic priests and nuns as students.

In the late 1960s, Enomiya-Lasalle was certified as a teacher in Yamada's Sanbo Kyodan sect and given the title roshi (Zen master), while professing his continued belief in Christianity.