Hakuin Zenji

HAKUIN ZENJI was born in Hara, Japan, on January 18, 1685. He began monastic studies as a teenager, studied with the great master Shōju Rōjin, and developed his teaching over a long career spanning more than fifty years. An enormously popular teacher during his lifetime, he died a few days short of his eighty-fourth birthday, in Hara where he had begun, and is said to have left more than 90 dharma heirs.

He is the author of:

The Complete Poison Blossoms from a Thicket of Thorn: The Zen Record of Zen Master Hakuin