Baizhang Niepan

Baizhang Niepan was a Linji school master—not to be confused with the earlier and more famous Baizhang Huaihai who established the Chan monastic code. He taught at Baizhang Mountain and maintained the Linji tradition's emphasis on direct encounter and breakthrough. His name in the lineage records reflects the practice of naming masters after the mountains or temples where they taught.

As a later figure bearing the Baizhang name, he carried the weight of association with one of Chan's most important institutional innovators. His own teaching, recorded in the lamp literature, continued the standard Linji approach of testing students through encounters designed to shatter conceptual thinking and reveal the mind's original nature.