Tiantong Zongjue

Dates uncertain

Lineage of Tiantong Zongjue Caodong school

Tiantong Zongjue is recorded in the historiography of the medieval / early-modern Japanese Sōtō branch-temple 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 · enTiantong Zongjue

alias · enT'ien-t'ung Tsung-chüeh

alias · enTendô Sôkaku

Disciples of Tiantong Zongjue 1 named

Xuedou Zhijianprimary · Dates uncertain

Teachers and lineage of Tiantong Zongjue

Teacher / root master:

Zhenxie QingliaoDharma transmission from Zhenxie Qingliao to Tiantong Zongjue. Zongjue subsequently succeeded Hongzhi Zhengjue at Tiantong-si (the abbacy), but his shihō was from Qingliao, not Hongzhi. The DB previously modeled this edge under Qingliao's other name 'Changlu' — Zhenxie (真歇) is the honorific dharma name; Changlu (長蘆) refers to his temple. Consolidating to a single `zhenxie-qingliao` master. · Dates uncertain

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Other masters in Caodong

Caoshan Benji840 – 901
Changlu Qingliao1089 – 1151
Hongzhi Zhengjue1091 – 1157
Tiantong Rujing1163 – 1228
Dagui Muzhe? – ?
Liangshan Yuanguan? – ?

Master Record Sources

nameChart of the Chan Ancestors
Tiantong Zongjue
Reliability: scholarly
schoolChart of the Chan Ancestors
Caodong
Reliability: scholarly
nameZen Editorial Overlay - Originals Curation
Tiantong Zongjue
Reliability: editorial
teachersZen Editorial Overlay - Originals Curation
Changlu Qingliao
Reliability: editorial