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Yangshan Huiji

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Caodong

Yangshan Huiji

Dates uncertain

Lineage of Yangshan HuijiCaodong school

Yangshan Huiji 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 · enYangshan Huiji
alias · enKyôzan Ejaku
alias · enYang-shan Hui-chi
alias · zh仰山慧寂

Disciples of Yangshan Huiji 2 named

Teachers and lineage of Yangshan Huiji

Teacher / root master:

Full lineage of Yangshan Huiji →

Teachings

  • koanPreaching From The Third Seat

    Mumonkan Case 25

    In a dream Kyozan went to Maitreya's Pure Land. He recognized himself seated in the third seat in the abode of Maitreya. Someone announced: "Today the one who sits in the third seat will preach." Kyozan arose and, hitting the gavel, said: "The truth of Mahayana teaching is transcendent, above words and thought. Do you understand?" Mumon’s comment: I want to ask you monks: Did he preach or did he not? When he opens his mouth he is lost. When he seals his mouth he is lost. If he does not open it, if he does not seal it, he is 108,000 miles from truth. In the light of day, Yet in a dream he talks of a dream. A monster among monsters, He intended to deceive the whole crowd.

    tr. Nyogen Senzaki, Paul Reps, 1934

    Commentator: Wumen Huikai, Yangshan Huiji

  • proverbCircle on the Ground

    (traditional attribution)

    I drew a circle on the ground; my master stood inside it. We could not have spoken any plainer with a thousand words.

    tr. Zen Lineage editorial

    Yangshan Huiji

  • proverbWhere Are You From?

    (traditional attribution)

    A monk arrived. Where are you from? From the mountains. Which mountain? The student who answers any mountain has not yet been on it.

    tr. Zen Lineage editorial

    Yangshan Huiji

  • proverbSigil and Letter

    (traditional attribution)

    Some teachers transmit by letters; my school transmits by sigils. The sigil is not pretty; it is meant to be unrepeatable, like the moment it was drawn.

    tr. Zen Lineage editorial

    Yangshan Huiji

  • proverbBrief Dharma Talk

    (traditional attribution)

    Today's dharma talk: bow when you enter, bow when you leave, and try not to fall asleep in the middle. Tomorrow's dharma talk will be the same.

    tr. Zen Lineage editorial

    Yangshan Huiji

  • proverbEverything Is the Flower

    (traditional attribution)

    When the master holds up the flower, the flower is the master. When the master sets it down, the master is the flower. The misunderstanding is to think only the holding-up counts.

    tr. Zen Lineage editorial

    Yangshan Huiji

Other masters in Caodong

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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