The Amida Buddha Statue in Kamakura. Sōtō Zen is the largest of the three traditional sects of Zen in Japanese Buddhism.
In the year 1227, the Livonian Brothers of the Sword conquer Danish Estonia, and Reval is given town rights under Riga law (Jan), King Valdemar II of Denmark is defeated in the Battle in Bornhöved, whereby the Danish border with the Holy Roman Empire is moved to the Eider River, in effect until 1806 (Jul 22), Genghis Khan dies in Western Xia (Aug 18), Grand Prince Yaroslav II leads a devastating attack from the Novgorod Republic on Baltic Finnic peoples called “Yem” (Häme in modern Finnish) in eastern Fennoscandia, the Japanese priest Dōgen Zenji leaves China, and goes on to introduce Sōtō Zen Buddhism into his native Japan - and all these fine people were born:
1227-xxxx Elisabeth of Bavaria* Queen of Germany by her marriage to King Conrad IV of Germany - Trausnitz Castle, Landshut, Bavaria (1273/c. 45)
1227-xxxx Fang Hui* 方回 scholar of the late Song and early Yuan dynasties - Huizhou, Huiyang prefecture (1307/c.80)
1227-xxxx Chomden Rigpe Raldri* scholar of the Sakya school involved in the editing of the Tibetan canon - Phu thang, Lho-kha, Tibet (1305/78)
1227-xxxx Hu Zhiyu* 胡祇遹 period writer of Chinese Sanqu poetry during the Yuan Dynasty - Hebei, Yuan Dynasty (1293/c. 66)
1227-0101 Mujū Dōkyō* 無住道曉 Buddhist monk of the Japanese Kamakura period - Japan (1312/85)
1227-02xx William II of Holland* the count of Holland and Zeeland - Holland (1256/28)
1227-03xx Charles I of Anjou* King of Sicily etc/son of Louis VIII of France - (1285/c.58)
1227-0629 Hōjō Tokiyori* 北条 時頼 fifth regent of the Kamakura shogunate - Japan (1263/36)
1227-0929 Gertrude of Aldenberg* German noblewoman/abbess - Thuringia (1297/69)
1227-0930 Pope Nicholas IV* (b Girolamo Masci) the first Franciscan to be elected pope - Lisciano, Kingdom of Naples (1292/64)
LINKS
http://maximietteita.blogspot.com/2017/08/early-finnish-saga-5.html
https://budhaworld.wordpress.com/2011/05/04/buddhism-in-japan-including-zen/
Updated 8.4.2022
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