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The Ōbaku (Chinese: Huangbo) sect of Zen Buddhism was brought to Japan in the mid-1600s by Chinese monks fleeing the collapse of the Ming dynasty (1368-1644). The new immigrants used the term Ōbaku (Huangbo), which simultaneously referred to a monastery founded on Mt. Huangbo in 631 and to an important abbot who had resided there and who was posthumously given the name Huangbo after his death in 850.
Mokuan, who succeeded his master, Ingen (Yinyuan 隠元, 1592-1673) as the second Ōbaku patriarch in Japan, was noted for his bold, yet fluid calligraphy.
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