(fl. 1190s) was a Japanese Buddhist monk who started the first Zen school in Japan called the Darumashū, or "Bodhidharma school."
(fl. 1190s) was a Japanese Buddhist monk who started the first Zen school in Japan called the Darumashū, or "Bodhidharma school."
==Biography== While a monk with the Tendai school, Nōnin came across Zen texts which had been brought from China. In 1189, he dispatched two of his disciples to China to meet with Zhuóān Déguāng (拙庵德光, 1121–1203), himself a student of the Rinzai master Dahui Zonggao. The disciples presented a letter Nōnin had written describing his realization from practicing Zen on his own. Deguang apparently approved and sent a letter certifying Nōnin’s enlightenment.
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