Langye Huijue

Langye Huijue was a student of Fenyang Shanzhao and a prominent Linji master of the early Song dynasty. He taught at Mount Langye and was known for his penetrating insight and his skill in the use of ancient encounter dialogues as teaching tools. His exchanges with students and visiting monks drew on the full repertoire of Linji methods—shout, blow, silence, and paradox.

Though Langye's lineage did not produce the large branches that his dharma brother Shishuang Chuyuan's did, he was widely respected in his own time as one of the finest Chan masters of the generation. His recorded dialogues show a teacher of great subtlety who could adapt the fierceness of the Linji style to the needs of individual students without diluting its transformative power.