Sengaku
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- Born
- 1931
- Works
- 7
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- ブッダを語る
- Vēdānta no tetsugaku
- The way to liberation
- "Ga" no shisō
- Indo chūsei shisō kenkyū
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Japan
- Occupation
- Buddhist nun
- Religion
- Buddhism
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- date of death
- 1272-01-01
- date of birth
- 1203-01-01
- name in native language
- 仙覚
- name in kana
- せんかく
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was a Japanese Buddhist monk of the Tendai school. He was a scholar, editor and a literary critic.
His major work, ''Man'yōshū chūshaku, was completed in 1269. This was a treatise on the collected poems in the Man'yōshū'' anthology. His work was instrumental in a process of rediscovering the original meaning of this seminal work of Japanese poetry.
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