On Teaching Foreign Monks

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When the Korean monk Gyunyeo came to study with Deshao, seeking Tiantai texts that had been lost in Korea, Deshao said to him: "The texts were never lost in Korea. They were always in your heart. What you seek from me is confirmation that the Dharma does not belong to one country or one mountain. Take the books—and take this: the Dharma of the texts and the Dharma of the mountain are the same Dharma."

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Attribution

• Attributed To
  Tiantai Deshao

Lineage: Fayan

By Tiantai Deshao

• Chan and Doctrine Are Not Twodialogue

From Jingde Chuandenglu

• On Gradual Cultivation
• Watch the Mind
• On Sudden Enlightenment
• The Debate at Huatai
• Before Thinking Arises
• The One Who Has No Rank
• The Arrow on High
• Meeting the Poet Li Ji
• Just This Is It
• Cold Ashes, Dead Tree

Sources

• contentZen Editorial Overlay - Originals Curation

  Zen project editorial

  Jingde Chuandenglu, Vol. 25, Tiantai Deshao chapter; Song Gaoseng Zhuan

  Jingde Chuandenglu: On Teaching Foreign Monks