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“The earliest attempt to form an independent Zen group in Japan seems to have been led by N艒nin, who taught his form of Zen at Sanb艒ji (a Tendai temple in Settsu) during the latter part of the twelfth century. Because N艒nin's following, which styled itself the Darumash奴 (after Daruma, i.e., Bodhidharma, the semilegendary founder of the Chinese Ch'an school), failed to secure a permanent institutional base, scholars had not fully realized N艒nin's importance until recently. As early as 1272, however, less than eighty years after N艒nin's death, Nichiren had correctly identified N艒nin as the pioneer leader of the new Zen groups. Eisai, a contemporary of N艒nin, also founded several new centers for Zen practice, the most important of which was Kenninji in Kyoto. In contrast to N艒nin, who had never left Japan, Eisai had the benefit of two extended trips to China during which he could observe Chinese Ch'an (Jpn. Zen) teachers first hand. The third important early Zen leader in Japan was D艒gen, the founder of Japan's S艒t艒 school. D艒gen had entered Eisai's Kenninji in 1217 and, like Eisai, also traveled to China for firsthand study. Unlike Eisai (or N艒nin), after his return to Japan D艒gen attempted to establish the monastic structures he found in China. D艒gen's monasteries, K艒sh艒ji (D艒gen's residence during 1230鈥�1243) and Eiheiji (1244鈥�1253), were the first in Japan to include a monks' hall (蝉艒诲艒) within which Zen monks lived and meditated according to Chinese-style monastic regulations.”
― William M. Bodiford, S艒t艒 Zen in Medieval Japan