Kokan Shiren
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Kokan Shiren, Japanese Rinzai Zen patriarch and celebrated poet. He preached Buddhism at the Imperial court, and was noted for his poetry in the Literature of the Five Mountains tradition. He was the
Kokan Shiren
A poem and calligraphy in Chinese by Kokan
The Gozan Bungaku or literature of the Five Mountains is the literature produced by the principal Zen monastic centers of in Kyoto and Kamakura, Japan. The term also refers to five Zen centers in Chin
Kokan Shiren
…11 August 1347), Japanese Rinzai Zen patriarch and celebrated poet. He preached Buddhism at the Imperial court, and was noted for his poetry in the Literature of the Five Mountains (Gozan bungaku) tradition. He was the compiler of a thirty-chapter Buddhist history, the Genko Shakusho, the oldest extant account of Buddhism in Japan…
Calligraphy of Five Mountains Patriarch Musō Soseki