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Wufeng Changguan

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Nanyue line

Wufeng Changguan

Dates uncertain

Lineage of Wufeng ChangguanNanyue line school

Wufeng Changguan (五峰常觀, fl. early 9th c.) was a Dharma heir of Mazu Daoyi who taught at Mount Wufeng ("Five Peaks") in modern Jiangxi[1]. The lamp records preserve a small body of his exchanges, in which he uses the staff and the shout in the directly confrontational manner the Hongzhou line would pass on to the Linji house in the next generation[2].

Although the bulk of Wufeng's specific record is preserved only in summary form, his name recurs in the genealogy of the Hongzhou community as one of the secondary Mazu heirs whose communities anchored the line's regional spread through Jiangxi and the middle Yangzi during the early ninth century — the institutional substrate from which the later Guishan, Linji and other Hongzhou-stream sub-lineages descend[3].

Names

dharma · enWufeng Changguan
alias · enGohô Jôkan
alias · enWu-fêng Ch'ang-kuan

Teachers and lineage of Wufeng Changguan

Teachers / root masters:

  • Baizhang HuaihaiWufeng Changguan was a dharma heir of Baizhang Huaihai. A recorded encounter has Baizhang sending Wufeng to visit Xitang. Per Terebess, Encyclopedia of Buddhism. · Dates uncertain
  • Xitang ZhizangDISPUTED — Wave-3 agent panel: every source places Wufeng Changguan as Baizhang Huaihai's heir, not Xitang Zhizang's. The famous koan exchange has Baizhang directing Wufeng to visit Xitang, confirming Baizhang as the transmission teacher. · 735 – 814

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Master Record Sources

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  • death datelow — based on hagiography or single popular source
  • schoolmedium — one authoritative source

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