Zenkei Shibayama, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Japanese Buddhist monk
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Place of Birth: Japan
About Zenkei Shibayama
- 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 was Keido Fukushima, abbot of Tofuku-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.
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