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Liu Tiemo

Liu Tiemo — portrait unavailable

Yunmen

Liu Tiemo

Dates uncertain

Lineage of Liu TiemoYunmen school

Liu Tiemo is recorded in the historiography of the late-Tang / Song-period Chan transmission network as a transmission figure in its lineage. The surviving record preserves his place in the line; little distinctive doctrinal material from his teaching is preserved in modern scholarship[1].

Names

dharma · enLiu Tiemo
alias · enLiu T'ieh-mo
alias · enRyû Tetsuma

Teachers and lineage of Liu Tiemo

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Teachings

  • dialogueIron Grinder Liu

    (traditional attribution)

    Liu Tiemo came to see Guishan. Guishan said, "So the old cow has come!" Liu Tiemo said, "Tomorrow there is a great feast on Mount Tai. Will the master be going?" Guishan lay down and stretched out. Liu Tiemo turned and walked out. A monk later asked Guishan about this exchange. Guishan said, "That old woman—she ground me right down."

    Liu Tiemo

Other masters in Yunmen

Master Record Sources

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  • schoolmedium — one authoritative source

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