# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kanzan-egen
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:16:39.071Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kanzan-egen"
name: "Kanzan Egen"
slug: "kanzan-egen"
description: "Kanzan Egen (関山慧玄/關山慧玄) (1277–1360) was a Japanese Rinzai Zen Buddhist monk, founder of Myōshin-ji Temple and a principal member of the extant Ōtōkan lineage, from which all modern Rinzai Zen derives. Centuries later, Emperor Meiji conferred the posthumous name Muso Daishi (無相大師) to Kanzan."
tagline: "Japanese Buddhist monk"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portrait_of_Rinzai_Zen_Master_Kanzan_Egen.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
birthDate: "1277-01-07"
deathDate: "1361-01-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.6
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.020556
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanzan_Egen"
    title: "Kanzan Egen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanzan_Egen"
    title: "Kanzan Egen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%96%A2%E5%B1%B1%E6%85%A7%E7%8E%84"
    title: "関山慧玄"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanzan_Egen"
    title: "Kanzan Egen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quan_S%C6%A1n_Hu%E1%BB%87_Huy%E1%BB%81n"
    title: "Quan Sơn Huệ Huyền"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10809938"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump