南直哉(みなみ じきさい、1958年–)は、日本の曹洞宗の禅僧。長野県生まれ。早稲田大学第一文学部卒業後、百貨店勤務を経て1984年に出家し、大本山永平寺で約20年間修行した。現在は青森県の恐山菩提寺院代、福井県の霊泉寺住職を務める。禅の実践を背景に、死、苦悩、自己の存在理由といった問題を、安易な救済や人生論に回収せず考察している。代表作『超越と実存――「無常」をめぐる仏教史』では、初期仏教から大乗仏教、禅へと至る思想の展開をたどり、存在の根拠を自ら決められない人間に仏教がどう向き合ってきたかを論じ、同書で小林秀雄賞を受賞した。
Jikisai Minami (born 1958) is a Japanese Soto Zen priest. Born in Nagano Prefecture, he graduated from Waseda University, worked at a department store, and entered the Buddhist priesthood in 1984. He trained for approximately twenty years at Eiheiji, one of the principal temples of the Soto school, and now serves as deputy abbot of Osorezan Bodai-ji in Aomori Prefecture and abbot of Reisenji in Fukui Prefecture. Drawing on Zen practice, he writes about death, suffering, and the question of why each person exists as the particular self they are, without offering simple formulas for salvation. In “Choetsu to Jitsuzon: ‘Mujo’ o Meguru Bukkyo-shi” (Transcendence and Existence: A Buddhist History of Impermanence), he traces Buddhist thought from early Buddhism through Mahayana and Zen and examines how it has confronted the groundlessness of human existence. The book received the Kobayashi Hideo Prize.
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