Yishan Yining

• relevant artists

  • Qingzhuo Zhengcheng

    Qingzhuo Zhengcheng was born in Fuzhou in the Yuan Dynasty. He left home at the age of 15. At the age of 52, he went to Japan and became the founder of the Japanese Rinzai sect Daikan school.

  • Mingji Chujun

  • Lanxi Daolong

    Lanxi Daolong (蘭溪道隆) was a Chinese monk during the Southern Song Dynasty (1127–1279). He later traveled to Japan, where he played a pivotal role in the propagation of Zen Buddhism. Daolong is credited with founding the Daijo-ha (大覚派), a school of Zen Buddhism in Japan. His teachings contributed to the development of Zen, particularly in how it was practiced and interpreted in Japan, influencing the Japanese Zen tradition significantly.

  • Zongfeng Miaochao

  • Ikkyu Sojun

    Yixiu Zongchun (1394-1481), born in January of 1394, a prominent Japanese monk of the Linzai Zen Buddhism sect in the Muromachi perio, also was a poet, calligrapher, and painter.