"My final words are these: As I fall I throw all on a high mountain peak - Lo! All creation shatters; thus it is That I destroy Zen doctrine."
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Japanese Death Poems. Compiled by Yoel Hoffmann. ISBN 978-0-8048-3179-6
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Kogaku Soko
Kogaku Soko (å¤å²³å®äŗ) (1464 ā June 24, 1548) was a Japanese Zen priest and poet. He is known for founding the , a sub-temple of , a temple of the Rinzai school of Zen in Buddhism, one of the five most important Zen temples of . He was posthumously named Daisho Kokushi.
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