Shoushan Xingnian

Dates uncertain

Lineage of Shoushan Xingnian Linji school

Shoushan Xingnian 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 · enShoushan Xingnian

alias · enShou-shan Hsing-nien

alias · enShuzan Shônen

Disciples of Shoushan Xingnian 1 named

Fenyang Shanzhaoprimary · Dates uncertain

Teachers and lineage of Shoushan Xingnian

Teacher / root master:

Fengxue YanzhaoRoot teacher / master · Dates uncertain

Full lineage of Shoushan Xingnian →

Teachings

koanShuzan's Short Staff
Mumonkan Case 43
Shuzan held out his short staff and said: "If you call this a short staff, you oppose its reality. If you do not call it a short staff, you ignore the fact. Now what do you wish to call this?" Mumon’s comment: If you call this a short staff, you oppose its reality. If you do not call it a short staff, you ignore the fact. It cannot be expressed with words and it cannot be expressed without words. Now say quickly what it is. Holding out the short staff, He gave an order of life or death. Positive and negative interwoven, Even Buddhas and patriarchs cannot escape this attack.
tr. Nyogen Senzaki, Paul Reps, 1934
Commentator: Wumen Huikai, Shoushan Xingnian

Other masters in Linji

Muzhou Daoming780 – 877
Xinghua Cunjiang830 – 888
Huanglong Huinan1002 – 1069
Wuzu Fayan1024 – 1104
Zhenjing Kewen1025 – 1102
Yuanwu Keqin1063 – 1135

Master Record Sources

nameChart of the Chan Ancestors
Shoushan Xingnian
Reliability: scholarly
schoolChart of the Chan Ancestors
Linji
Reliability: scholarly
koan_refsChart of the Chan Ancestors
65,76 43 41,52 60,61
Reliability: scholarly
nameZen Editorial Overlay - Originals Curation
Shoushan Xingnian
Reliability: editorial
teachersZen Editorial Overlay - Originals Curation
Fengxue Yanzhao
Reliability: editorial