Wagessa?

[Mitka]

Thank you for the answers Shokai and Shingen. Being new to real-life Zen (the kind not found in books) all the variety of kesas, full and abbreviated, are a tad bewildering.

EDIT: Just want to clarify that I asked purely out of curiority, not because I thought I would be sowing one.

Gassho,
Matthew
Sat

[Jundo]

Let me just emphasize, there is absolutely no reason that folks at Treeleaf need to know anything whatsoever about Wagesa or Hangesa.

Gassho, J

SatTodayLAH

[Shoka]

Trivia is so much fun! Thanks for such an interesting thread. More random information to file away.

Gassho,

Shoka
sattoday

[Kyonin]

I love these posts. Thank you all.

I have seen the wagesa before, but had no idea about them.

Gassho,

Kyonin
Sat/LAH

[Jundo]

I heard from Domyo, who said that the double s (Wagessa) is just how they started spelling it in Kennett Roshi's OBC, and too late to change now!

(I believe that this is a living example of how most 'traditions' were born in Zen over the centuries! With 'that's just what somebody started doing.' )

And let me repeat: There is absolutely no reason that folks at Treeleaf need to know anything whatsoever about Wagesa (one s'or two) or Hangesa.


Gassho, J

SatTodayLAH

[Rendulic]

As someone who's day job involves writing regulation and policy, and someone who used to call these O'Kesa, from the Pure Land folks who made New England home decades ago and preferred the honorific "O" (for example "O'Bon"), this is a fascinating example of how knowledge/trivia/information grows and proliferates. Having zazen as a touchstone and a few precepts to come back to are useful corrections to the fractal accumulation that happens with data. And traditions are data to which we've attached meaning.

Gassho, Rendulic
Sat Today

[Getchi]

THankyou.

Geoff.

SatToday
LaH.

[Souchi]

Thanks, I really like these kind of trivia

Gassho,
Souchi

SatToday

[Myogan]

Hangessas have been given as gifts, or as the “casual wear” robe for some temples. Myself, I have been tempted to take a leftover strip of cloth from my Kesa, leave it plain as a pocket representation of my Kesa when I sit away from home, but as it has been said, “we wear our Kesa all the time in our daily lives”

Gassho
Sat

[Kyonin]

Okesa : Wagesa

Mario : Wario



Luigi : Waluigi



I shall sit with this.

Gassho,

Kyonin
Sat/LAH