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 | | Daito took monastic orders as a youth and at the age of about 21 became a disciple of Koho Kennichi (12411316), who had studied in Japan under the Chinese master Wuxue Zuyuan (122686), and who was a son of Emperor GoSaga (reg 12426). |
 | | After Nanpos death Daito lived in a retreat or, according to legend, under the bridges of Kyoto with beggars, and eventually founded the hermitage north-west of Kyoto which, under the patronage of the emperors Hanazono (reg 130818) and GoDaigo (reg 131839), was to become the great temple Daitokuji (see KYOTO, §IV, 5). |
 | | Daitos religious spirit is illustrated in a famous incident, when he broke a bone in his leg, an earlier injury to which had prevented him from assuming the full lotus position, took the posture, wrote a traditional deathbed poem (yuige) and died. |
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