List of Rinzai Buddhists
Founder
- Linji Yixuan
A
- Ankokuji Ekei
- Sōgen Asahina
- Ashikaga Yoshimitsu
B
- Bassui Tokushō
- George Bowman
C
- Sherry Chayat
- Chō Tsuratatsu
- Chūgan Engetsu
- Leonard Cohen
D
- Watazumi Doso
- Ji Gong
- Ogino Dokuon
- Doshin Hannya Michael Nelson
E
- Kanzan Egen
- Eisai
- Hakuin Ekaku
- Enni Ben’en
F
- Mary Farkas
- Keido Fukushima
G
- Jakushitsu Genko
H
I
J
- Ito Jakuchu
- Jakushitsu Genkō
- Kaisen Joki
- Josetsu
- Jun Po Denis Kelly
K
- Imakita Kosen
- Kurt Kankan Spellmeyer
- Keian Genju
- Kūshu Enshin
L
M
N
O
P
- Puhua
- L.Rōen Prowe
Q
R
S
- Kyozan Joshu Sasaki
- Sengai
- Nyogen Senzaki
- Oda Sesso
- Soyen Shaku
- Eido Tai Shimano
- Denko Sommer
- Kokan Shiren
- Mugaku Sogen
- Sokei-an
- Muso Soseki
- Ishin Suden
- Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
- Sakugen Shūryō
- Sasaki Gensō
- Sessai Choro
- Sesshū Tōyō
- Sesson Yūbai
- Sheng-yen
- Zenkei Shibayama
- Sōiku Shigematsu
- Kokan Shiren
- Shōtetsu
- Shunoku Sōen
- Gidō Shūshin
- Harada Daiun Sogaku
- Kobori Nanrei Sohaku
- Kurt Kankan Spellmeyer
- Maurine Stuart
- D. T. Suzuki
T
- Takuan Sōhō
- Genki Takabayashi
- Bassui Tokushō
- Sesshu Toyo
- Fumio Toyoda
- Shinkichi Takahashi
- Tesshin Hozan
U
V
W
X
Y
- Sobin Yamada
- Gempo Yamamoto
- Bankei Yōtaku
- Sesson Yubai
- Mumon Yamada
- William Nyogen Yeo
- Yishan Yining
