Jiashan Shanhui

Jiashan Shanhui was a student of Chuanzi Decheng, the Boat Monk, who received his awakening through the dramatic encounter at the Huating River crossing. Before meeting Chuanzi, Jiashan had been a well-known lecturer, but Daowu Yuanzhi exposed the limitations of his merely intellectual understanding. This sent him to Chuanzi, whose radical teaching methods—capsizing the boat and striking his student—shattered Jiashan's remaining conceptual framework.

After his awakening, Jiashan established a thriving community on Mount Jia that became known for the thoroughness and depth of its training. He carried forward Yaoshan's lineage with a teaching that balanced the subtlety of the Qingyuan line with direct and forceful methods. His principal student was Luopu Yuanan, who would further deepen and transmit this branch of the Dharma.