Baoning Renyong

Dates uncertain

Baoning Renyong 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 · enBaoning Renyong

alias · enHonei Ninyû

alias · enPao-ning Jên-yung

Teachers and lineage of Baoning Renyong

Teachers / root masters:

Yangqi FanghuiBaoning Renyong was a dharma heir of Yangqi Fanghui, founder of the Yangqi sub-line of Linji. Per WWZC and Terebess. · 992 – 1049
Cuiyan KezhenDISPUTED — Wave-4: Baoning Renyong's actual teacher was Yangqi Fanghui, not Cuiyan Kezhen. · Dates uncertain

Full lineage of Baoning Renyong →

Other masters in Linji

Muzhou Daoming780 – 877
Xinghua Cunjiang830 – 888
Huanglong Huinan1002 – 1069
Wuzu Fayan1024 – 1104
Zhenjing Kewen1025 – 1102
Yuanwu Keqin1063 – 1135

Master Record Sources

nameChart of the Chan Ancestors
Baoning Renyong
Reliability: scholarly
schoolChart of the Chan Ancestors
Linji
Reliability: scholarly
nameZen Editorial Overlay - Originals Curation
Baoning Renyong
Reliability: editorial
teachersZen Editorial Overlay - Originals Curation
Cuiyan Kezhen
Reliability: editorial