Baiyun Shouduan

Dates uncertain

Lineage of Baiyun Shouduan Yangqi line school

Baiyun Shouduan is recorded in the historiography of the late-Tang / Song-period Chan transmission network as a transmission figure in its lineage. The surviving record preserves his place in the line; little distinctive doctrinal material from his teaching is preserved in modern scholarship^[1].

Names

dharma · enBaiyun Shouduan

alias · enHakuun Shutan

alias · enPai-yün Shou-tuan

Disciples of Baiyun Shouduan 2 named

Sixin Wuxinprimary · Dates uncertain
Wuzu Fayanprimary · c. 1024 – c. 1104

Teachers and lineage of Baiyun Shouduan

Teacher / root master:

Yangqi FanghuiRoot teacher / master · 992 – 1049

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Teachings

sayingNot Deceived by Words
(traditional attribution)
Baiyun said: "The ancients used words to dispel delusion, the way a physician prescribes medicine according to the illness. If you take the words of the ancients to be the truth itself, you are like a man who swallows the prescription instead of taking the medicine. Once the illness is cured, throw away the remedy. Do not let the teachings become a new disease."
Baiyun Shouduan

Other masters in Yangqi line

Yangqi Fanghui992 – 1049
Poan Zuxian1136 – 1211
Wuzhun Shifan1178 – 1249
Xutang Zhiyu1185 – 1269
Xueyan Zuqin1216 – 1287
Gaofeng Yuanmiao1238 – 1295

Master Record Sources

nameChart of the Chan Ancestors
Baiyun Shouduan
Reliability: scholarly
schoolChart of the Chan Ancestors
Linji/Yangqi
Reliability: scholarly
nameZen Editorial Overlay - Originals Curation
Baiyun Shouduan
Reliability: editorial
teachersZen Editorial Overlay - Originals Curation
Yangqi Fanghui
Reliability: editorial