Mugai Nyodai
Japanese Zen master
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Mugai Nyodai (Japanese: 無外如大, 1223–1298) was one of the first abbesses of Zen Buddhism and the first female Zen master in Japan. A disciple of Mugaku Sogen, she organized convents and spread the lessons of the Rinzai school of Zen.[1][2][3] The only surviving written accounts of her life date to more recent centuries, and so many details of her biography are unclear.[4]
