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822–908).
Ch’an/Zen Buddhist master, dharma-successor (
hassu
) of
Te-shan Hsüan-chien
, from whom derived (via his pupils) the
Yünmen
(Ummon) school and the
Fa-yen
/
Hsüan-sha
(
Hogen
) school. He experienced profound enlightenment in
mond
with his dharma brother,
Yen-t'ou Chuan-huo
. Against his initial wishes, many monks gathered around him on Mount Hsüeh-feng (hence his name), and through them, Ch'an spread extensively.

 
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Hsüeh-tou Ch’ung-hsien
(Jap., Setch
J
ken
;

982–1052).
Chinese Ch'an/Zen master of the
Yün-men
(
Ummon
) school, a great poet, who laid the foundations of the hundred verses of the
Pi-yen-lu
(Jap.,
Hekigan-roku
; The Blue Cliff Record). Yüan-wu K'o-ch'in took up and extended the work, making it into the most important collection (along with
Wu-men-kuan
) of Zen
k
ans
. To the two basic texts (the cases of enlightenment experience, and the verses) Yüan-wu added notes and a commentary. Thus for each of the hundred examples, there are seven parts: introduction, case, notes, commentary, verse, notes, commentary.

 
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Hsü Kao-seng chuan
(Chinese Buddhist biographical text)
:

see
TAO-HSÜAN
.

 
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