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Xingyang Qingpou

Xingyang Qingpou — portrait unavailable

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Xingyang Qingpou

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Lineage of Xingyang QingpouGuiyang school

Xingyang Qingpou 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 · enXingyang Qingpou
alias · enHsing-yang Ch'ing-p'ou
alias · enKôyô Seibô

Teachers and lineage of Xingyang Qingpou

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Teachings

  • sayingBefore Thinking Arises

    (traditional attribution)

    Xingyang said: "Before a single thought arises, where is the distinction between sacred and profane? In that gap, the whole great earth is the gate of liberation. But the moment you try to dwell there, you have already missed it."

    Xingyang Qingpou

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Master Record Sources

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

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