Dahong Zuzheng

Dahong Zuzheng was a Linji school master of the Song dynasty who taught at Mount Dahong. He maintained a community of practitioners and contributed to the ongoing vitality of the Linji tradition during a period when it was the dominant school of Chinese Chan. His teaching continued the characteristic Linji emphasis on direct pointing and the breaking of conceptual attachment.

Zuzheng's place in the lineage reflects the broad flourishing of Linji Chan during the Song dynasty, when the school's methods and institutional structures reached their mature form. Masters like Zuzheng sustained the tradition not through dramatic innovation but through the faithful maintenance of its essential spirit—the demand for direct, personal realization that cannot be borrowed from any teacher or text.