Mingan Rongxi

Mingan Rongxi was a Yangqi line master recorded in the transmission literature as a dharma heir who maintained the Yangqi tradition's characteristic teaching methods. He contributed to the branch's broad network of practice centers during the Song dynasty, training students in the encounter-based pedagogy that distinguished the Linji school from other forms of Chinese Buddhism.

Rongxi's place in the lineage reflects the robust health of the Yangqi branch during the Song dynasty, when it was rapidly becoming the dominant form of Chinese Chan. The branch's success was due not only to its great innovators but to the many teachers like Rongxi who maintained the standard of practice across the tradition's expanding network of monasteries and hermitages.