Kokan Shiren

Kokan Shiren
虎関師錬
Title	Kokushi (本覚国師)
Personal
Born	(1278-05-09)May 9, 1278 Kyoto, Japan
Died	August 11, 1347(1347-08-11) (aged 69) Tōfuku-ji, Kyoto
Religion	Buddhism
Nationality	Japan
School	Rinzai

Kokan Shiren (Japanese: こかんしれん, Kanji: 虎関師錬; 9 May 1278 – 11 August 1347), Japanese Rinzai Zen patriarch and celebrated poet. He preached Buddhism at the Imperial court, and was noted for his poetry in the Literature of the Five Mountains (Gozan bungaku) tradition. He was the compiler of a thirty-chapter Buddhist history, the Genko Shakusho, the oldest extant account of Buddhism in Japan.