Sûden was a [[Zen Buddhism|Zen]] monk who acted as a religious advisor to [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]] and as a result played a notable role in that sphere in the foundation of the [[Tokugawa clan|Tokugawa]] shogunate. Along with other scholars he drafted the Buke shohatto for Tokugawa Ieyasu in [[1615]] and read the document before an assembly of daimyô at Fushimi that same year. He was also known as Konchiin Sûden. | Sûden was a [[Zen Buddhism|Zen]] monk who acted as a religious advisor to [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]] and as a result played a notable role in that sphere in the foundation of the [[Tokugawa clan|Tokugawa]] shogunate. Along with other scholars he drafted the Buke shohatto for Tokugawa Ieyasu in [[1615]] and read the document before an assembly of daimyô at Fushimi that same year. He was also known as Konchiin Sûden. |