The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (2751 page)

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Yunus
.
Yun-yen T’an-sheng
(Jap., Ungan Donj
;
c.
780–841)
. Ch’an/Zen master, dharma-successor (
hassu
) of Yueh-shan Wei-yen, and master of
Tung-shan
Liang-chieh, co-founder of
Ts’ao-tung
. Several formative exchanges (
mond
) between the two have been recorded—for an example see
TUNG-SHAN
.
Y
pa
(Skt., ‘post’). Stake to which, in Hinduism, a sacrificial victim is tied. It is regarded as the tree of life, uniting earth and heaven (cf.
SKA
BHA
), and was clearly associated with
li
ga
power. It is often eight-sided, and when anointed, it was addressed as ‘the tree of divine sweetness’.

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