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Zenkei Shibayama, (?? ??,1894...1974), a former Abbot of Nanzenji, was a Japanese Rinzai master well-known for his commentary on the Mumonkan. One of his better-known students is 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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