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Muhō Nölke (ネルケ無方) (born 1968) is a German Zen monk. Presently he is the abbot of Antai-ji a Japanese Soto Zen temple. He has translated works of Dōgen and Kōdō Sawaki and has authored one book in German and several books in Japanese.At age 16 Muhō was introduced to zazen by one of his high school teachers and soon had the wish to become a Zen monk. To prepare for his stay in Japan he studied Japanese at the university in Berlin along with philosophy and physics.