1. Kokan Shiren preached Buddhism at the Imperial court, and was noted for his poetry in the Literature of the Five Mountains tradition.
11 Facts About Kokan Shiren
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Kokan Shiren was the compiler of a thirty-chapter Buddhist history, the Genko Shakusho, the oldest extant account of Buddhism in Japan.
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Kokan Shiren's talents came to the attention of the Emperor Kameyama.
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Kokan Shiren became abbot at many of the best Zen establishments.
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Yet in his writings Kokan Shiren showed an aloofness from prestige with a striving for inner freedom.
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Kokan Shiren is credited with other contributions to lexography in his lifetime.
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Kokan Shiren studied calligraphy under an additional Chinese master Huang Shangu.
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Kokan Shiren is noted for writing the Genko Shakusho, the oldest extant account of Buddhism in Japan.
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Kokan Shiren saw that these stones purified my senses and purified my intellect.
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Kokan Shiren realized that events are really not what they seemed and yet they enriched me.
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Kokan Shiren said he would, but there were no waves for him.