Shiwu Qinggong
Shiwu Qinggong
1272 – 1352
Shiwu Qinggong (石屋清珙, 1272–1352), known by his sobriquet "Stonehouse" (Shiwu), was a Yangqi-line Linji master of the late Song and early Yuan and the principal Dharma heir of Jihu Yanlin (a senior heir of Wuzhun Shifan)[1]. After a long period of training at the major Linji monasteries of the Hangzhou region, he retired around 1312 to the Tianhu hermitage on Mount Xiawu in modern Anhui, where he spent the rest of his life as a working farmer-monk and a teacher of a small circle of students[2].
Two distinct bodies of literature preserve his teaching. His *Mountain Poems* (山居詩) — over 180 short poems on the practice and economy of solitary mountain life — are among the most-anthologised hermit-poet works of late-imperial East Asian Buddhism and were translated into English by Bill Porter ("Red Pine") in 1986[3]. His more institutional legacy is the Dharma transmission he gave in 1347 to the Korean monk Taego Bou, the line through which Yangqi-Linji Chan entered Korea and reshaped Goryeo-period Seon[4].
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Disciples of Shiwu Qinggong
Teachers and lineage of Shiwu Qinggong
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Teachings
- verseMountain Hermitage
My hut sits among a thousand peaks, the path overgrown with moss. Clouds come and go as they please, and the moon keeps me company at night. No bell marks the hours, no visitor breaks the silence. I sit until the incense burns to ash and the mountain stream speaks the Dharma.
Other masters in Yangqi line
Master Record Sources
- datesZen Editorial Overlay - Originals Curation
1272-1352
- nameZen Editorial Overlay - Originals Curation
Shiwu Qinggong
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Yangqi line
- teachersZen Editorial Overlay - Originals Curation
Ji'an Xin