People from Taizhou, Zhejiang - Yishan Yining, Lo Tsung-Lo, Xu Liangying, Liangchi Zhang (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Yishan Yining (, in Japan Issan Ichinei; before monkhood had Hu as a family name ( H); born 1247 in Linhai, Taizhou, Zhejiang, China died November 28 1317 in Kyoto, Japan) was a Linji school, and subsequently Rinzai Zen master from Yuan China 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 China. Originally from Zhejiang, Yining became a monk in childhood in Hongfusi monastery () and took full ordination in Puguangsi Monastery (). He originally studied Tiantai school, then turning to Chan. After changing a number of tutors, he became the Dharma heir of Wanji Singmi (, Japanese Gankyoku Gyomi), the fourth lineage holder of Mi'an Xianji (11181186). Later he became the abbot of Puji Monastery in the Island of Putuoshan and rose to wide fame as a Buddhist master. In 1299 (during the reign of Temr Khan, Emperor Chengzong of Yuan) Yuan government sent him on a diplomatic mission to Japan to restore the relations with Bakufu government. On arriving in Kamakura he was arrested by the then regent Hojo Sadatoki on charges of spying. However, soon Sadatoki came to respect his prisoner and set him free. Yishan Yinging stayed in Japan to become one of the major Zen teachers of the Kamakura period. In Kamakura, he served in monasteries Kench-ji, Engaku-ji and Jochi-ji (). In 1313 the resigned emperor Go-Uda invited him to Kyoto to become the abbot of Nanzen-ji, the most influential Zen center of the time. He is still reme... More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=23811845