Taisen Deshimaru

Sawaki is said to have expressed his wish to spread Zen to other parts of the world on his death-bed and asked Deshimaru to travel to Europe and spread the teaching. He died in 1982 after he had solidly establiTaisen Deshimarud Zen practice in the West. Taisen Deshimaru (弟子丸 泰仙 Deshimaru Taisen? 29 November 1914 - April 30 1982) was a Japanese Sōtō Zen Buddhist teacher who founded the Association Zen Internationale.