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Tettsū Gikai (徹通義介) is considered the third spiritual leader of the Sōtō Zen school of Buddhism in Japan. He began his Buddhist life as a student of the Darumashū’s Ekan but later both became students of Eihei Dōgen’s newly established Sōtō school. Gikai received dharma transmission from Koun Ejō Dōgen’s successor and later became the third abbot of the school’s head temple Eihei-ji. Shortly thereafter he became embroiled in a leadership crisis known as the sandai sōron.
