Yangqi Fanghui
Yangqi Fanghui
992 – 1049
Yangqi Fanghui (楊岐方會, 992–1049) was a Dharma heir of Shishuang Chuyuan and the founder of the Yangqi (楊岐) sub-house of the Linji school, the one of the two Linji sub-lineages — alongside Huanglong Huinan's — which proved to be the more enduring[1]. He taught at Mount Yangqi in modern Jiangxi, where his small community produced the immediate ancestors of the great mid-eleventh- to twelfth-century Yangqi line: through his successor Baiyun Shouduan, the Yangqi line passed to Wuzu Fayan and then to the three masters who shaped the canonical form of late-imperial Linji practice — Yuanwu Keqin (compiler of the *Bìyán Lù*), Foyan Qingyuan, and through Yuanwu, Dahui Zonggao[2].
The Yangqi line eventually absorbed the Huanglong sub-house and became the only surviving Linji line; through the late-Song transmissions to Japan it gave rise to the Daiō-Daitō-Kanzan / Ōtōkan stream from which essentially all modern Rinzai Zen descends[3].
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- dialogueThe Meaning of Yangqi's Teaching
A monk asked Yangqi, "What is the meaning of the patriarch's coming from the West?" Yangqi said, "A donkey peers into a well." The monk said, "I do not understand." Yangqi said, "The well peers at the donkey."
Yangqi addressed the assembly: "If you want to understand this matter, you must cut off all entanglements at a single stroke. Do not spend your days counting other people's treasures. Right here, right now—what is lacking?"
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Master Record Sources
992-1049
Yangqi Fanghui
Linji/Yangqi
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992-1049
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Yangqi Fanghui
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Shishuang Chuyuan