Yishan Yining, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Yishan Yining

Buddhist monk

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-0001

Place of Birth: Linhai, Zhejiang, China

Date of Death: 28-Nov-1317

Profession: poet, bhikkhu, calligrapher

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Yishan Yining

  • Yishan Yining (?? ??, in Japanese: Issan Ichinei) (1247 - 28 November 1317) was a Chinese Buddhist monk who traveled to Japan.
  • Before monkhood his family name was Hu.
  • (? Hú).
  • He was born in 1247 in Linhai, Taizhou, Zhejiang, China.
  • He was a monk of the Linji school during the Yuan Dynasty of China, and subsequently a Rinzai Zen master who rose to prominence in Kamakura Japan.
  • He was one of the chief disseminators of Zen Buddhism among the new militarized nobility of Japan, a calligrapher and a writer.
  • Mastering a variety of literary genres and being a prolific teacher, he is mostly remembered as the pioneer of Japanese Gozan Bungaku literature, that recreated in Japan the literary forms of Song dynasty.

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