Rinzai Buddhists

Canadian singer, songwriter and poet (1934–2016)

Japanese artist (1420-1506)

Japanese Buddhist scholar, Doctor of Letters (1870–1966)

American poet (born 1930)

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Japanese daimyo of the Sengoku period

The third shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate of Japan (1358–1408)

was a Japanese Buddhist priest, credited with founding the Rinzai school, the Japanese line of the Linji school of Zen Buddhism. In 1191, he introduced this Zen approach to Japan, following his trip to China from 1187 to 1191, during which he was initiated into the Linji school by the master Hsü an. It is also said that he popularized green tea in Japan, following this same trip. He was also the founding abbot of Shōfuku-ji and Kennin-ji, two of the earliest Zen temples in Japan. He is often known simply as Eisai/Yōsai Zenji (栄西禅師), literally "Zen master Eisai".

Japanese Zen Buddhist master (1686-1769)

11th shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate of Japan (1494–1508)

Japanese Regent

Japanese Zen-Buddhist teacher and landscape architect (1275-1351)

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Japanese Buddhist priest

Japanese artist (1716-1800)

thumb|right|Catching catfish with a gourd (Hyōnen-zu) by Josetsu was one of the first suiboku (ink wash) style Zen Japanese painters in the Muromachi Period (15th century). He was probably also a teacher of Tenshō Shūbun at the Shōkoku-ji monastery in Kyoto.

philosopher (1561-1619)

American writer

Diplomat of Mōri clan

Japanese Zen buddhist monk

Japanese monk

'''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

Japanese Zen Buddhist monk of the Rinzai sect

Japanese Rinzai Zen teacher (1907-2014)

Japanese Buddhist

Mujū Dōkyō (; 1 January 1227 – 9 November 1312), birth name Ichien Dōkyō, was a Buddhist monk of the Japanese Kamakura period. He is superficially considered a Rinzai monk by some due to his compilation of the Shasekishū and similar books of koans, but there is good evidence that he was also an eager student of the Tendai, Pure Land, and Hosso sects, and he is occasionally placed in the Shingon and Ritsu sects as well.

Japanese Zen Buddhist monk (1860–1919)

Japanese Zen buddhist teacher

Japanese Zen Buddhist teacher (1931–1995)

Japanese Buddhist monk (1871–1961)

Japanese monk and writer

Japanese monk and poet

Japanese Zen Buddhist master

Japanese diplomat

Japanese monk of the Sengoku period

Shōtetsu (, 1381–1459 CE) was a Japanese poet during the Muromachi period. He is considered to have been the last poet in the courtly waka tradition and a number of his disciples were important in the development of the renga art form, which led to the haiku.

Japanese Buddhist monk (1894-1974)

Japanese Buddhist monk

Japanese confucianist (1816–1892)

Japanese Buddhist monk

Japanese Buddhist monk

Japanese writer

samurai (1546-1619)

Japanese Rinzai priest and writer

Japanese Buddhist monk (1933–2011)

Japanese diplomat (1501–1579)

Japanese Zen monk (1876-1958)