Zenkei Shibayama
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, 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
Tōfuku-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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