Bassui Tokusho (1327—1387) was a Japanese Rinzai Zen master who made it a life mission to revitalize Zen Buddhism in Japan during his lifetime. In that vein, Bassui preferred living the life of a hermit rather than settling in to a monastery. Orphaned at birth, he was left as an infant in an open field ...
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