Changqing Huileng
Changqing Huileng
854 – 932
Changqing Huileng (長慶慧稜, 854–932) was a Dharma heir of Xuefeng Yicun and a leading second-generation teacher of the Xuefeng community in Fujian, alongside his fellow-students Xuansha Shibei and Yunmen Wenyan[1]. The lamp records preserve the often-quoted detail that he "wore out seven meditation cushions" in the course of his long training under Xuefeng — a topos that became standard shorthand in later Chan literature for the patient, drawn-out quality of practice in the Xuefeng community[2].
His awakening, recorded in the *Jǐngdé Chuándēng Lù*, came on the morning he rolled up a bamboo blind and saw the outside world: he composed the verse "How wrong I was, how wrong! Now I roll up the blind and see the world"[3]. He went on to establish a community at the Changqing Yuan in Fuzhou, and his exchanges with Baofu Congzhan — the two Xuefeng-line teachers most often paired in the lamp records — became a central source of late-Tang Fujian Chan dialogues that the *Bìyán Lù* draws on repeatedly[4].
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Changqing sat for many years wearing out seven meditation cushions without awakening. One day he tried to roll up the bamboo blind. In an instant his understanding opened. He composed a verse: "How wrong, how wrong! Roll up the blind and see the world. If anyone asks what teaching I understand, I will hit them across the mouth with my whisk."
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Master Record Sources
854-932
Changqing Huileng
Qingyuan line
- koan_refsChart of the Chan Ancestors
8,22,23,74 24,64,71 84 76,93,95
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Changqing Huileng
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Xuefeng Yicun