Quo Fuit places 3 dated presences for Eisai across 3 places, from 1187 to 1215.
Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
was a Japanese Buddhist priest, credited with founding the Rinzai school, the Japanese line of the Linji school of Zen Buddhism.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Every dot is a place Eisai is documented in, on a dated record. The interactive globe carries the full detail.
Where Eisai was documented, and when
1187year
Chinaattested“He spent only six months in China on this first trip, but returned in 1187 for a longer stay as a disciple of Xuan Huaichang, a master in the Linji (Rinzai) line, at Jingde Si (Ching-te-ssu, 景德寺) monastery.”source: Wikipedia: Eisai
1202year
Kyotoattested“Eisai founded Kennin-ji in Kyoto in 1202 on land gifted to him by Yoritomo's son, the second Kamakura shōgun Minamoto no Yoriie.”source: Wikipedia: Eisai
1215year
Kennin-jiattested“Eisai died in 1215 at the age of 74, and is buried in Kennin-ji's temple grounds.”source: Wikipedia: Eisai
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1168year
Kamakura shogunatementioned“Dissatisfied with the state of Buddhism at the time, in 1168 he set off on his first trip to Mount Tiantai in China, the origin of the sect, where he learned of the primacy of the Chan (later known in Japan as Zen) school in Chinese Budd…”source: Wikipedia: Eisai
1168year
Mount Tiantaimentioned“Dissatisfied with the state of Buddhism at the time, in 1168 he set off on his first trip to Mount Tiantai in China, the origin of the sect, where he learned of the primacy of the Chan (later known in Japan as Zen) school in Chinese Budd…”source: Wikipedia: Eisai
1168year
Chinamentioned“Dissatisfied with the state of Buddhism at the time, in 1168 he set off on his first trip to Mount Tiantai in China, the origin of the sect, where he learned of the primacy of the Chan (later known in Japan as Zen) school in Chinese Budd…”source: Wikipedia: Eisai
1191year
Kamakura shogunatementioned“After his certification as a Zen teacher, Eisai returned to Japan in 1191, bringing with him Zen scriptures and green tea seeds.”source: Wikipedia: Eisai
1191year
Chinamentioned“Eisai is also credited with the beginning of the tea tradition in Japan, by bringing green tea seeds from China, back from his second trip in 1191, and writing the book , (in English, Drinking Tea for Health).”source: Wikipedia: Eisai
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back to it. Nothing is inferred, and a gap in the record is not evidence that someone was elsewhere.
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explicitly dated record, attested a sentence that states the person was there,
mentioned a sentence that ties the person to the place without stating presence.
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