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1200–1280 Japan

Enni Ben'en, also Shoichi Kokushi and Shoichi. (圓爾辯圓; Chinese Yuan'er Bianyuan; 1202 – 1280) was a Japanese Buddhist monk, who founded Tōfuku-ji monastery in Kyoto, and practiced Zen as well as other types of Buddhism. His disciples included Mujū.

Japan
Poets

Also known as: Enni Ben'en, Shoichi Kokushi

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All my life I taught Zen to the people -
Nine and seventy years.
He who sees not things as they are
Will never know Zen.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Enni (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.