Cuiwei Wuxue

Cuiwei Wuxue (翠微無學, fl. mid-9th c.) was a Dharma heir of Danxia Tianran and the link between the Shitou stream and the later Touzi line; he taught at Mount Cuiwei in modern Shaanxi and was the teacher of Touzi Datong^[1].

His best-known dialogue, preserved in the *Jǐngdé Chuándēng Lù*, is the bamboo-garden exchange: asked about the meaning of Bodhidharma's coming from the West, Cuiwei told the questioner, "Wait until no one is around, and I will tell you"; when the monk approached him alone, Cuiwei led him into the bamboo grove and silently pointed at the bamboo — a wordless answer that became one of the standard Qingyuan-line gestures for the immediacy of the Dharma in the everyday^[2].