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St-shu's Constitution 
(Extracts)
St-shu is the
Japanese St Zen School.
Chapter 1 
General Provisions
<h3>Art. 3:
Doctrine</h3>
Abiding by the
right law of Bussotanden, the St Shu doctrine is transmission of Shikantaza
and Sokushinzebutsu.
Chapter VII 
Priests and religious teachers: 
 
<h3>Article 32
Freedom of expression</h3>
Unless restricted
by the St Shu Statutes, a priest's freedom of publication and speech shall not
be impaired.
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<h3>REGULATIONS FOR
THE STANDING OF RELIGIOUS TEACHERS AND PRIESTS IN THE STSHU</h3>
Chapter II -
Section II
Article 27 
Tokudo [ordination] may be performed for a person who believes the tenets of
the Stshu. At the time of tokudo, the person's name shall be registered in the
shiso's temple.
A shiso shall be a religious teacher in the Stshu whith a monastic rank of
Osho [matre] or niosho [maitresse] or higher.
After tokudo is performed, the shiso shall submit an application for
certification of entry of the name in the register of priests ; the application
shall be accompanied by an extract of the totei [ordained]'s family register and
evidence derived from the ceremony of tokudo, and shall be submitted to the
Shumucho whithin 3 months of the tokudo. If the recipient of tokudo in question
is still a minor, the application mentioned above shall also require the
signature of the parent or guardian.
 
<a>What is an Osho </a>
[According to the
Stshu regulations for a person to be ordained the ordaining monk must be an
osho and the ordination must happen in his temple.]
Chapter II
- Section I 
Article 26 
Osho: he whose name has been enrolled in the register of priests who have
performed zuise [la confirmation] at the two head temples.
[ Zuise is the
confirmation (dempo/shiho) ]
 
size="3">What is a temple?</a>
Stshu TEMPLE
REGULATIONS Chapter I
Temples shall be classified by rank as head temples, kakuchi, hochi and
junhochi.
The head temples are the following two temples Eiheiji, Eiheiji-cho,
Yoshida-gun, Fukuiken Sojiji, Tsurumi, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama-shi,
Kangawa-ken
A kakuchi is a temple the chief priest of which has the monastic rank of
daiosho [grand-matre], and which is allowed to practice kessei-ango [la
retraite de trois mois] once a year or more
A hochi is a temple the chief priest of which has the monastic rank of at
least osho or niosho
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A junhochi is a temple the chief priest of which has the monastic rank of at
least dempo [la transmission].
[...]
Article 7 
[...] Any temple located outside Japan shall be called a tokubetsu
temple.
Article 7-3 
A tokubetsu temple is regarded as a hochi temple.
Chapter II 
Article 8 
One who intends to found a temple shall obtain the approval of the Stshu
Executive Officer by providing the following documents Statement of temples
rules, written application for the appointment of a chief priest , personnal
history of the candidate chief priest ; names, adresses, qualifications, and
seal registration certificates of the candidate temple executive board members ;
and other required documents.
each temple shall maintain the following documents:
- the Stshu
statutes, temples rules, and other relevants rules ;
- detailed plans
of ground and buildings
- Property
ledger
- register of
past chief priests
deaths of temple supporters and devotees
temple executive board members
supporters and register of devotees
honji and horui
advisors
- minutes of
temple excutive board meeetings
- correspondence
whith governmental and public agencies, Shumucho and district office,
etc
- rules of
graveyard mangement (...)
- documents
relevant to the temple supporters and devottees commitee,
- other necessary
documents
The honji [the temple from which a new temple depends] of a newly founded
shall be the temple to which the candidate chief priest belongs or in which the
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candidate chief priest serves as chief priest.
 
<h3><a>Executive Board</a></h3>
Chapter
V
The executive board members shall include one or more persons in each of three
categories religious teachers who are chiefs priests, delegate of supporters,
and delegates of devotees.
The chief priest shall select executive board members and avisors. The
executive board members'names, qualifications, addresses, and seal registration
shall be submitted to the head of the district office having juridiction and to
the Shumucho. The names, addresses, and qualifications of advisors also shall be
submitted.
The chief priest shall select three or more delegates from among the
supporters and devotees, and nominate them as advisors.
Chapter
VI
The chief priest shall make three copies each of the register of supporters
and register of devotees. One copy shall be preserved in the temple in question
and the other two copies shall be submitted to the district office having
juridiction and the Shumucho.
A person who is within any one of the following categories shall be enrolled
in the register of supporters or register of devotees:
- one who has
become a supporter by establishing a household 
- one who is a supporter or a devotee of another temple but has moved to the
temple in question with the approval of the new temple's chief priest, 
- or one who has been converted from a different religious school and moved to
the temple in question (...) 
- one who requests to become one.
size="3"> 
</a>
size="3"> Addresses </a>: 
<h5>Stshu
Shumuch</h5>
Administration
Headquarters of St Zen Buddhism 
5-2 Shiba 2 Chome Minato-ku Tokyo 105 
Phone 03 : 3454-5411 Fax 03 : 3454-5423
Stshu shumuch
(International division) 
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5-2, shiba 2-chome, Minato-ku Tokyo 105
<a href="http://global.sotozen-net.or.jp/eng/what/denomination/"
target="_blank">http://global.sotozen-net.or.jp/eng/what/denomination/</a>
 
 
Organisation 
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St"
target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C5%8Dt%C5%8D 
</a>
The Soto-shu
organisation has an elaborate organisation. It consists of circa 15.000
temples. There are circa 30 training centers, where Soto-monks can train to
become an osh or priest and run their own temple. 
<h3>Head and
parliament </h3>
Soto Zen Head
Quarters, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Soto-shu has a centralised organisation, run by a head:

Soto-shu is a democratic organization with a head (called
Shmusch) that is elected by a parliament. The parliament in turn consist
of 72 priests that are elected in 36 districts throughout Japan, 2 from each
district. The Shmusch selects a cabinet that consists of him and seven other
priests who together govern the organization. It is commonly believed that the
Kanch, who is either the head of Eiheiji or Sjiji, the two head temples, is
the boss of Soto-shu. This is not the case. The Kanch has only representational
functions; the real power lies with the Shmusch and his
cabinet.
Temples


Contemporary Soto-shu has four classes of temples: 

<ol>
<li>Honzan
() , head temples, namely <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eihei-ji" target="_blank">Eihei-ji </a> and
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sji-ji" target="_blank">Sji-ji</a>;
</li>
<li>Kakuchi
, teaching monasteries, where at least once a year an ango 
(ninety-day retreat) takes place; </li>
<li>Hchi
, dharma temples; </li>
<li>Jun hchi
, ordinary temples. </li>
</ol>
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While Eihei-ji
owes its existence to Dgen, throughout history this head temple has had
significantly fewer sub-temple affiliates than the Sji-ji. During the Tokugawa
period , Eiheiji had approximately 1,300 affiliate temples compared to Sji-ji's
16,200. Furthermore, out of the more than 14,000 temples of the St sect today,
13,850 of those identify themselves as affiliates of Sji-ji. Additionally, most
of the some 148 temples that are affiliates of Eiheiji today are only minor
temples located in Hokkaido founded during a period of colonization during
the Meiji period . Therefore, it is often said that Eiheiji is a head temple
only in the sense that it is "head of all St dharma lineages.
<h3>Legal status
</h3>
The Soto-shu is
an "umbrella (hokatsu) organization for affiliated temples and organizations"
.It has "three sets of governing documents": 
<ol>
<li>Sotoshu
Constitution (Sotoshu shuken); </li>
<li>Regulations
for the Religious Juridical Person Sotoshu (Shukyo honin Sotoshu kisoku);
</li>
<li>Sotoshu
Standard Procedures (Sotoshu kitei). </li>
</ol>
 
 <a
href="Jizoku.pdf" target="_blank">Jizoku (Priests' Wives) in St Zen Buddhism:
An Ambiguous Categor</a>y (PDF) 
by
Kawahashi Noriko 
Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, Vol. 22, No. 1/2 (Spring, 1995),
pp.
161-183.
 
<a href="precepts.html" target="_blank">Precept Practice and Theory in St Zen 
</a>by David E. Riggs 
 
 <a
href="Rowe-Soto-funeral.pdf" target="_blank">Where the Action Is: Sites of
Contemporary St Buddhism</a> 
by Mark Rowe 
Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, Vol 31:2 2004 
 
<a
href="Uchino-Soto-nuns.html" target="_blank">The status
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elevation process of St sect nuns in modern Japan</a> 
by Uchino Kumiko 
Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, Vol 10:2-3 1983 
 
<a href="PurpleRobe.html" target="_blank">The Purple Robe Incident and
the Formation of the Early Modern St Zen Institution</a> 
by Duncan Williams 
Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, Vol 36:1 2009 
 
 Muh
Nlke () (born 1968) 
What does it take to become a full-fledged Soto-shu priest and is it really
worth the whole deal? 
<a href="http://antaiji.org/en/" target="_blank">http://antaiji.org/en/</a>
<blockquote>
<ul>
<li><a
href="http://antaiji.org/en/english-what-does-it-take-to-become-a-full-fledged-s
oto-shu-priest-and-is-it-really-worth-the-whole-deal-1/" target="_blank">#1:
What does it take to become a full-fledged Soto-shu priest and is it really
worth the whole deal? </a></li>
oto-shu-priest-and-is-it-really-worth-the-whole-deal-1/english-what-does-it-take
-to-become-a-full-fledged-soto-shu-priest-and-is-it-really-worth-the-whole-deal-
part-2-ten-points-to-keep-in-mind-about-dharma-transmission/"
target="_blank">#2: Ten points to keep in mind about dharma transmission
</a></li>
oto-shu-priest-and-is-it-really-worth-the-whole-deal-1/english-part-3-ten-e-and-
some-words-about-zui-se/" target="_blank">#3: Ten-e and some words about Zui-se
</a></li>
oto-shu-priest-and-is-it-really-worth-the-whole-deal-1/english-part-4-zui-se-abb
ot-for-the-night/" target="_blank">#4: Zui-se abbot for the night
</a></li>
oto-shu-priest-and-is-it-really-worth-the-whole-deal-1/english-part-5-sessa-taku
ma-ango-as-life-in-a-rock-grinder/" target="_blank">#5: Sessa-takuma ango as
life in a rock grinder </a></li>
oto-shu-priest-and-is-it-really-worth-the-whole-deal-1/english-part-6-muho-the-z
en-nazi/" target="_blank">#6: Muho the Zen Nazi! </a></li>
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oto-shu-priest-and-is-it-really-worth-the-whole-deal-1/english-part-7-back-to-th
e-topic/" target="_blank">#7: Back to the topic! </a></li>
oto-shu-priest-and-is-it-really-worth-the-whole-deal-1/english-part-8-what-do-i-
have-to-believe-in-to-become-a-monk-and-when-do-i-get-my-dharma-transmission/"
target="_blank">#8: What do I have to believe in to become a monk, and when do I
get my dharma transmission? </a></li>
oto-shu-priest-and-is-it-really-worth-the-whole-deal-1/english-part-9-about-the-
meaning-of-the-vertical-and-horizontal-structure-of-the-sangha/"
target="_blank">#9: About the meaning of the vertical and horizontal structure
of the sangha </a></li>
</ul>
 
 
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