"Full of great changes My three and fifty years have been. I commented on the holy writ - a heavy sin That echoes to the skies. Now I will sail on the lake of lotus blooms And break into the skies within the water."
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Japanese Death Poems. Compiled by Yoel Hoffmann. ISBN 978-0-8048-3179-6)
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Tetsugen Doko
Tetsugen DÅkÅ (éē¼éå 1630 ā 22.3.1682) was a Japanese Zen Master, and an important early leader of the Åbaku school of Buddhism.
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