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Margaret II, Countess of Flanders

Countess of Flanders (1202–1280)

Matilda II of Boulogne

Countess of Boulogne, Queen of Portugal (1202-1259)

Kunigunde of Hohenstaufen

Bohemian Queen consort

Boniface II, Marquess of Montferrat

King of Thessalonica

Emperor Modi of Jin

emperor of the Jin Dynasty (1115–1234)

Alfonso of Molina

Son of King Alfonso IX of León

'''Enni Ben'en (圓爾辯圓; 1 November 1202 – 10 November 1280) or simply Enni, also known as Shōichi Kokushi''', was a Japanese Buddhist monk. He started his Buddhist training as a Tendai monk. While he was studying with Eisai, a vision of Sugawara no Michizane appeared to him in a dream and told him to go to China and study meditation. Following this vision, he met the Rinzai teacher Wuzhun Shifan in China, and studied Mahayana with him. When he returned to Japan, after founding Jōten-ji temple in Hakata (Fukuoka), he founded Tōfuku-ji monastery in Kyoto, and practiced Zen as well as other types o

Chinese politician and general

samurai of the Kamakura period