John, I don't know how it would be applied to golf architecture or the game, but the second wave of Chinese influence on Japanese culture in the form of Zen Buddhism (which replace Pure Land Buddhism) certainly shaped most of the aspects we associate with traditional Japanese culture, such as dry landscape gardens, Noh theater, the tea ceremony, Shoin architecture, landscape painting, etc. and emphasized meditation as a means of enlightenment, mu-shin, or passing beyond oneself and the mind. Not too many golf courses were built in the Muromachi Era (1336-1573), however.