Shengshou Nanyin

Dates uncertain

Lineage of Shengshou Nanyin Early Chan school

Shengshou Nanyin (聖壽南印, fl. 9th c.) is one of the minor figures preserved in the late-Tang transmission-of-the-lamp records, named in the *Zǔtáng Jí* and the *Jǐngdé Chuándēng Lù* within the Qingyuan-stream genealogies^[1]. Beyond his lineage placement the surviving record preserves little of his teaching; modern scholarship treats him as one of the many local teachers who anchored the spread of Chan beyond its original Hongzhou and Shitou centres in the later Tang^[2].

Names

dharma · enShengshou Nanyin

alias · enSeijû Nan'in

alias · enShêng-shou Nan-yin

Disciples of Shengshou Nanyin 1 named

Suizhou Daoyuanprimary · Dates uncertain

Teachers and lineage of Shengshou Nanyin

Teacher / root master:

Jingzhong ShenhuiRoot teacher / master · 720 – 794

Full lineage of Shengshou Nanyin →

Other masters in Early Chan

Dazu Huike487 – 593
Mahasattva Fu497 – 569
Dayi Daoxin580 – 651
Daman Hongren602 – 675
Yuquan Shenxiu606 – 706
Zizhou Zhishen609 – 702

Master Record Sources

nameChart of the Chan Ancestors
Shengshou Nanyin
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schoolChart of the Chan Ancestors
Other
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nameZen Editorial Overlay - Originals Curation
Shengshou Nanyin
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teachersZen Editorial Overlay - Originals Curation
Jingzhong Shenhui
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