Baofu Congzhan

Baofu Congzhan (保福從展, d. 928) was a Dharma heir of Xuefeng Yicun who taught at Baofu Temple in modern Fujian and is paired in the lamp records most often with his fellow-student Changqing Huileng^[1]. The two are the most frequently cited interlocutors in the Xuefeng-community dialogues that the *Bìyán Lù* and the *Cóngróng Lù* select as case material — a body of exchanges that, in McRae's reading, helped fix the genre of the "encounter dialogue" itself as the canonical literary form of Song-period Chan^[2].

The often-cited "Wondrous Mountain Peak" exchange (*Bìyán Lù* Case 23) — Baofu and Changqing walking together; Baofu points and says "this very spot is the peak of the Wondrous Mountain"; Changqing answers, "It is so, but what a pity" — is read by Yuanwu Keqin's commentary as a model of two awakened practitioners testing each other rather than competing^[3]. Baofu's recorded sayings are otherwise sparse, but his pairing with Changqing made him an enduring fixture of Song-period koan literature.