Lotus Zen

Japanese: 蓮禅 - れんぜん
Lotus Zen
?-? A Chinese poet from the late Heian period.
Born after 1084. A descendant of Fujiwara no Saneyori. Junior Fifth Rank. He was interested in Pure Land Buddhism and became a monk around 1135. After wandering around Chikuzen (Fukuoka Prefecture), he published "Sange Ojo-ki." He also compiled 59 Chinese poems in the "Honcho Mudai Shi" (Poetry of the Untitled Collection of Classical Chinese Poems), and was praised as a pessimistic poet. His real name was Fujiwara no Sukemoto. He was commonly known as Chikuzen Nyudo.

Source: Kodansha Digital Japanese Name Dictionary +Plus Information | Legend

Japanese:
?-? 平安時代後期の漢詩人。
応徳元年(1084)以後の生まれ。藤原実頼の子孫。従五位下。浄土教に関心をよせ,保延(ほうえん)元年(1135)ごろ出家。筑前(ちくぜん)(福岡県)を漂泊後,「三外(さんげ)往生記」をあらわした。また「本朝無題詩」に59首の漢詩がのり,厭世(えんせい)詩人と評された。俗名は藤原資基。通称は筑前入道。

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