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::''Not to be confused with [[Zogai Zenkan]] (1279-1355).''
*''Japanese'': 禅鑑 ''(Zenkan)''
Zenkan was a Japanese Buddhist monk of the [[Kamakura period]], who is believed to have been the first to introduce [[Buddhism]] into the [[Ryukyu Islands|Ryûkyû Islands]].
He became castaway or shipwrecked in Ryûkyû at some point in the 1250s or 1260s. There, he managed to convince the Okinawan king [[Eiso]] to convert to Buddhism, and in [[1265]] Zenkan established the temple of [[Gokuraku-ji (Okinawa)|Gokuraku-ji]] in the Okinawan capital of [[Urasoe]].
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==References==
*"[https://kotobank.jp/word/%E7%A6%85%E9%91%91%281%29-1085360 Zenkan]," ''Nihon jinmei daijiten'', Kodansha, 2015.
[[Category:Religious Figures]]
[[Category:Ryukyu]]
[[Category:Kamakura Period]]
*''Japanese'': 禅鑑 ''(Zenkan)''
Zenkan was a Japanese Buddhist monk of the [[Kamakura period]], who is believed to have been the first to introduce [[Buddhism]] into the [[Ryukyu Islands|Ryûkyû Islands]].
He became castaway or shipwrecked in Ryûkyû at some point in the 1250s or 1260s. There, he managed to convince the Okinawan king [[Eiso]] to convert to Buddhism, and in [[1265]] Zenkan established the temple of [[Gokuraku-ji (Okinawa)|Gokuraku-ji]] in the Okinawan capital of [[Urasoe]].
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==References==
*"[https://kotobank.jp/word/%E7%A6%85%E9%91%91%281%29-1085360 Zenkan]," ''Nihon jinmei daijiten'', Kodansha, 2015.
[[Category:Religious Figures]]
[[Category:Ryukyu]]
[[Category:Kamakura Period]]