Q:Facts: - death date: august 29 , 1974 - location: nanzen-ji otani university - birth date: november 30 , 1894 - school: rinzai - name: zenkei shibayama - color: black - background: #ffd 068 - birth place: japan - religion: zen buddhism - occupation: writer roshi Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of zenkei shibayama .
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, 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 is keido fukushima , abbot of tofuku-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 .due 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 .