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 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 .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 .