# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/zenkei-shibayama
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:53:18.947Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/zenkei-shibayama"
name: "Zenkei Shibayama"
slug: "zenkei-shibayama"
description: "Zenkei Shibayama , a former Abbot of Nanzen-ji, was a Japanese Rinzai master well known for his commentary on the Mumonkan. One of his better-known students was Keido Fukushima, abbot of Tōfuku-ji. Shibayama also taught at Otani University and was the head abbot of the entire Nanzenji Organization, overseeing the administration of over five hundred temples.\nDue to a number of lecture tours he undertook to the United States in the 1960s, and the translation of several of his books into English, Shibayama was a significant contributor to the establishment of Zen in America."
tagline: "Japanese Buddhist monk (1894-1974)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Zenkei_Shibayama.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1894-11-30"
deathDate: "1974-08-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.86
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.477466666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenkei_Shibayama"
    title: "Zenkei Shibayama"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%83%D9%89_%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A7"
    title: "زينكى شيباياما"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibayama_Zenkei"
    title: "Shibayama Zenkei"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9F%B4%E5%B1%B1%E5%85%A8%E6%85%B6"
    title: "柴山全慶"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibayama_Zenkei"
    title: "Shibayama Zenkei"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenkei_Shibayama"
    title: "Zenkei Shibayama"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q189630"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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