The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (2187 page)

Third patriarch (
soshigata
) in the Ch’an Buddhist lineage in China, and dharma-successor (
hassu
) of
Huik’o
. He died in 606 CE, but nothing certain is otherwise known of him. He is said to have been attracted by
La
k
vat
ra S
tra
, which he received from Hui-k’o, and also to have written the poem
Hsin-hsin-ming
(Jap.,
Shinjimei
, ‘Inscribed on the Believing Mind’), but its union of Taoist and Mah
y
na ideas make this unlikely. It (especially its opening) is much quoted in Zen writings.

 
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(Jap., ‘fish-run’). Zen expression derived from
Chuang-tzu
31: ‘A fish-run is constructed to catch fish: we should keep the fish and forget the run. A snare is to catch rabbits: we should keep the rabbits and forget the snare. Words are to transmit meaning: we should keep the meaning and forget the words.’

 
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(Skt.,
Sahasrabhuja-sahasranetra
, ‘a thousand arms and a thousand eyes’). Kannon (see
AVALOKITE
VARA
) with a thousand arms growing from the palm of each hand, each arm having an eye: this enables him to see all distress and act to alleviate it.

 
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