770 births

Byzantine emperor

Zhenzhou Puhua (Chinese: traditional: 鎮州普化, simplified: 普化, pinyin: Zhenzhou Pǔhuà; Japanese: Jinshu Fuke, honorifically Fuke Zenji (lit. "Zen master Fuke")—allegedly ca. 770–840 or 860), also called '''P'u-k'o, and best known by his Japanese name, Fuke', was a Chinese Chan (Zen) master, monk-priest, wanderer and eccentric, mentioned in the Record of Linji (臨剤録, C. Linji lu, J. Rinzai roku). Fuke was used to create a legend for the komusō samurai-monks that appeared in Edo-period Japan. They used their self-named Fuke Zen to establish a constructed connection to Japanese Rinzai Zen Buddhism in