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  • Gateless Barrier: Zen Comments on the Mumonkan

    Gateless Barrier: Zen Comments on the Mumonkan - Paperback

    Gateless Barrier: Zen Comments on the Mumonkan - Paperback

    By Zenkei Shibayama

About Zenkei Shibayama Books

Born in 1894 and ordained a Zen monk in 1908, Zenkei Shibayama was Zen Master of the important Nanzenji Zen Monastery in Kyoto for twenty-five years. He was a professor at Hanazono and Otani universities, the author of a number of works in Japanese, and the chief abbot of the Nanzenji Organization of some five hundred Rinzai Zen temples in Japan. Shibayama Roshi died in 1974.