Zen's Chinese Heritage: The Masters and Their Teachings (167 page)

227
Su Wu and Li Ling were historical figures who lived in the Western Han dynasty (206 B.C.E–32 C.E.).

228
Foyan here differentiates between acts that are for one’s own benefit and the actions of enlightened Buddhist practitioners who work for the benefit of others.

229
To
gassho
is to place palm to palm in a gesture of respect.

230
Rui grass is an auspicious plant.

231
Mahakaruna
(in Chinese,
dabei
) is a Sanskrit term meaning “great compassion” or “great pity.” It refers to the tragedy of the suffering of beings and the mind of compassion that responds to that suffering.

232
Hezhou is the ancient name for He County in Anwei Province.

233
Yuelin Temple is located in Fenghua County in Zhejiang Province.

234
Treasure Peak is located near modern Nanchang City in Jiangxi Province.

235
See note 227.

236
Nengren Temple was located in the city of Nanjing in Jiangsu Province.

237
The “old barbarian,” Bodhidharma, sat facing the wall for nine years at Shaolin Temple.

238
Xi Zhong is a legendary Chinese builder of wheeled vehicles who is said to have lived during the ancient Xia dynasty (2205–1766 B.C.E.).

239
Mt. Xiang is located on the Yang-tse River in Jiangsu Province.

240
Xizhen Temple was located west of Mt. Wuyun in Hangzhou.

241
Pomegranate blossoms are fiery red.

Index

A

Akshobhya Buddha

Amitabha Sutra

Anapana Sutra

Ancestral Hall Collection

Anderson, Tenshin Reb–xxiii

arhat

asura

Avici Hell

B

Bailin Monastery

Baiyun Shouduan

Baizhang Huaihai

Baizhang Niepan

Bajiao Huiqing

Baling Haojian

Baoci Xingyan

Bao’en Xuanze

Baofeng.
See
Yunan Kewen

Baofeng Weizhao

Baofu Congzhan

Baojing (“Precious Peace”)

Baolin (“Precious Woods”) Monastery

Baoning Renyong

Baoshou Yanzhao

Baoying.
See
Nanyuan Huiyong

Blue Cliff Record

Blue Cliff Temple

Boat Monk (also Boatman).
See
Chuanzi Decheng

bodhi

Bodhidharma

“coming from the west” kōan

“facing the wall” kōan

kōans, other

life and teachings of

the “old barbarian,”

and the Oxhead school

robe and bowl of

scholarly doubts about his historicity

stories about

students of

Zen in China prior to

bodhisattvas

See also specific bodhisattvas

Book of Serenity

Brahma-Net Sutra

Buddha of Supreme Wisdom and Penetration

C

canqing

Caodong Zen school

characteristics of

“five ranks” system of

founding of

lineage of

“silent illumination Zen,”

survival to the present day

texts of

Caoshan Benji

Caoxi.
See
Dajian Huineng

Chan Buddhism

See also
Zen Buddhism

Chan Lin Seng Bao Zhuan

Changlu.
See
Zhenxie Qingliao

Changqing Da’an.
See
Guishan Da’an

Changqing Huileng

Changsha Jingcen

Changshui Zixuan

Chanti Weizhao.
See
Baofeng Weizhao

Chen Zunsu.
See
Muzhou Daoming

Chengtian Chuanzong

Chengtian Temple

China, ancient rulers of

Chizhou

Chongshou Qizhou

Chongzhu City

Chuanzi Decheng

Classical period of Zen literature

Compendium of Five Lamps.
See
Wudeng Huiyan
(
Compendium of Five Lamps
), Dachuan Lingyin Puji

Complete Compilation of the Sources of Zen

Consciousness-Only school of Buddhism

Cuiwei Wuxue

Cuiyan.
See
Dayu Shouzhi

Cuiyan Kezhen

Cuiyan Lingcan

Cuiyan Shouzhi.
See
Dayu Shouzhi

D

Dachuan Lingyin Puji.
See
Songshan Puji

Daguang Juhui

Dagui.
See
Yue’an Shanguo

Dagui An.
See
Guishan Da’an

Dagui Muche

Dahong Zuzheng

Dahui Zonggao

Daji.
See
Mazu Daoyi

Dajian Huineng

Daju Huihai

Dajue

Daman Hongren

Dharma heir of Daoxin

Discourse on the Highest Vehicle

as fifth Chinese ancestor

Huineng, as student of

students of

teaching devices of

Damei Fachang

Danxia Tianran

Danxia Zichun

Danyuan Yingzhen

Dao Xuan

Daowu Yuanzhi

Daoxin.
See
Dayi Daoxin

Dasui Fazhen

Datong.
See
Yuquan Shenxiu

Dayang Jingxuan

Dayang Yan.
See
Dayang Jingxuan

Dayi Daoxin

East Mountain school practices of

enlightenment of

as Fourth Ancestor

students of

Dayu.
See
Gao’an Dayu

Dayu Shouzhi

Dazu Huike

Dehong.
See
Juefan Huihong

Deshan Xuanjian

Deshan Yuanmi

“Dharma combat,”

“Dharma eye,”

Dharma names of Zen masters

dharmadhatu

dharmakaya

Diamond Sutra

and Dayu Shouzhi

Deshan Xuanjian, as an authority on

Guifeng’s writings on

as included in the Mahaprajnaparamita Sutra

the Qinglong Commentaries on

as quoted by Mingzhao

responses to

as teaching device

Dipamkara Buddha

Discourse on the Highest Vehicle

Dizang.
See
Luohan Guichen

Doctrine of the Vital Gate of Sudden Entry into the Way
(Great Pearl)

Dongchan Temple

Dongshan Liangjie

disciples of

“five ranks” of

students of

and Yantou

and Zen master Shishuang

Dongshan school

See also
Caodong Zen school

Dongshan Shouchu

Doushuai Congyue

“dragon gate adept,”

Dragon Gate Temple

E

East Mountain school

adepts of

branches of

establishment of

and the Northern school

vs.
Oxhead school

practices of

East Mountain Temple

Emperor Wu.
See
Wu (Emperor Liang Wudi)

“emptiness,”

F

Fahai

Faith in Mind
(Sengcan)

Farong.
See
Niutou Farong

Faxiang school

Fayan Wenyi–

Fayan Zen school

characteristics of

as evolved from Xuefeng’s students

founder of

methods of instruction

teachings of

“three buddhas” of

Fazheng.
See
Baizhang Niepan

Fengxian Daoshen

Fengxue Yanzhao

Fenyang Shanzhao

Ferguson, Andy

five houses of Zen

“Five Mountains” monasteries

“five precepts,”

Flower Garland Sutra

Foguo.
See
Yuanwu Keqin

Fojian.
See
Taiping Huiqin

Fori.
See
Dahui Zonggao

“four benefits,”

“four bodies,”

“four elements,”

four noble truths

Foyan.
See
Wumen Huikai

Foyan Qingyuan

Fragrant Mountain

Funiu

Furong Daokai

Fushan Fayuan

Fuyang (in Ci Province)

G

Gao Seng Zhuan

Gao’an Dayu

gassho

Gateless Gate

geographic names of Zen masters

gongan
(Chinese, in Japanese, kōan)

gongfu

Great Enlightenment Temple

Great Pearl.
See
Daju Huihai

“Great Pearl Wisdom Sea.”
See
Daju Huihai

Great Vehicle

Great Woods Temple

Guannan Daochang

Guifeng Zongmi

Guishan Da’an

Guishan Lingyou

Dharma brother of

disciples of

interaction with Deshan

students of

Guishan Zhe.
See
Dagui Muche

Guiyang Zen school

characteristics of

founding of

lineage of

sacred symbols of

Guizong Cezhen

Guizong Temple

Guizong Zhichang

Guling Shenzan

Guoqing Temple

Guquan

Guzunsu Yulu (The Record of the Venerable Ancients)

H

Hai Brother Hai.
See
Baizhang Huaihai

Haimen prefecture

Han Chinese

Hangzhou Tianlong

Heart Sutra

Heine, Steven

“Hermit of Lotus Flower Peak.”
See
Lianhua Fengxian

Hermit of Tongfeng.
See
Tongfeng Anzhu

Heze Shenhui

Heze Zen school

Hinayana Zen

Hongren.
See
Daman Hongren

Hongzhi Zhengjue

Hongzhou School of Zen

Huangbo Xiyun

Huanglong.
See
Huitang Zuxin

Huanglong branch of Linji Zen

Huanglong Huinan–

Huanglong Wuxin.
See
Sixin Wuxin

Huanglong Zuxin.
See
Huitang Zuxin

Huangmei.
See
Daman Hongren

huatou
(single word form of gongan)

Huayan Buddhist school

Huguo Jingyuan

Huguo Shoucheng

Hui An of Mt. Song

Hui Chang suppression

Huichao.
See
Guizong Cezhen

Huike.
See
Dazu Huike

Huineng.
See
Dajian Huineng

Huitang Zuxin

Huizhao.
See
Linji Yixuan

Hunan Province

Hunan school of Zen

See also
Shitou Zen school

I

Iron Grinder Liu.
See
Liu Tiemo

J

Jetavanavihara Park

Jianchang (ancient city)

Jianfeng.
See
Yuezhou Qianfeng

Jiangxi Province

Jianzhi Sengcan

Jiashan Shanhui

Jingguo.
See
Huguo Shoucheng

Jingqing Daofu

Jingyan.
See
Dayang Jingxuan

Jingzhao Mihu

Jinhua Juzhi

Jinshan.
See
Qingxi Hongjin

Jinshan Temple

Jiufeng Daoqian

Jiufeng Qin

Juefan Huihong

Juzhi “One Finger Zen.”
See
Jinhua Juzhi

K

Kaifu Daoning

Kaihua Guangzhao.
See
Langye Huijue

kōans.
See
gongan

Kwan Yin Bodhisattva

description of

home of

protectors of

references to

Kwan Yin Monastery

L

lamp records. See
Wudeng Huiyan (Compendium of Five Lamps)

Langye Huijue

Lankavatara Sutra

Lao Na.
See
Dahong Zuzheng

Layman Pang.
See
Pangyun (Layman Pang)

Layman Wang.
See
Wang Yanbin

Lazy An.
See
Guishan Da’an

Legendary period of Zen literature

Liang dynasty

Liang Wudi (Emperor Wu)

Liangshan Yuanguan

Lianhua Fengxian

Liling City

Ling Quan Monastery

Lingnan

Lingyun Zhiqin

Linji Yixuan

Linji Zen school

branches of

and the Caodong Zen line

characteristics of

and the Guiyang school

Huanglong branch of

origins of

teachers of

Yangqi branch of

Literary period of Zen literature

Liu Tiemon111–12

Longce Temple

Longchuan (Chu Province)

Longji Shaoxiu

Longmen.
See
Foyan Qingyuan

Longtan Chongxin

Longxing Temple

Longya Judun

Lotus Flower Peak, the Hermit of.
See
Lianhua Fengxian

Lotus Sutra

Dayu’s study of

description of the Buddha of Supreme Wisdom and Penetration

responses to

Shoushan’s chanting of

studied by Fengxue Yanzhao

studied by Foyan

studied by Zhenxie Qingliao

Tiantai Buddhist school, as based upon

Luohan Guichen

Luopu Yuanan

Luoshan Daoxian

Luzu Baoyun

M