Zen Comments on the Mumonkan

About "Zenkei Shibayama"

1. Zenkei Shibayama Shibayama Zenkei, 1894 1974 , a former Abbot of Nanzen ji, was a Japanese Rinzai master well known for his commentary on the Mumonkan One of his better known students is Keido Fukushima, abbot of T fuku ji Shibayama also taught at Otani University and was the head abbot of the entire Nanzenji Organization, overseeing the administration of over five hundred temples Due to a number of lecture tours he undertook to the United States in the 1960s, and the translation of several of his books into English, Shibayama was a significant contributor to the establishment of Zen in America from WIkipedia

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