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Jiun Onkō (慈雲飲光 literally: "Purple cloud drinks sunlight"; also known as: Katsuragi Jiun Sonja 葛城慈雲尊者 literally: "Ven. Purple Cloud of Katsuragi"). 1718 born and raised in Osaka, the son of a masterless samurai and a devoutly Buddhist mother. Forced into the Buddhist clergy at thirteen at the time of his father's death, Jiun became a novice under Ninko Teiki (1671–1750), a master in the Shingon Vinaya sect. This sect stressed both Shingon or Japanese tantric Buddhism and traditional monastic discipline. Under Teiki's influence, and after a period of training in his late teens and early twenties that included Zen and further Confucian studies, Jiun went on to become one of the leading Buddhist scholars and reformers of the Tokugawa period (1603–1868). undefined