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Khotanese monk’s name was Shikshananda,
Red Pine • The Lankavatara Sutra: Translation and Commentary (NONE)
Note: According to the biography of the ninth-century poet-recluse Lu Kuei-meng , as recorded in the Hsintangshu (New History of the T’ang Dynasty),
Stonehouse Red Pine • The Mountain Poems of Stonehouse
Khotanese monk’s name was Shikshananda,
Red Pine • The Lankavatara Sutra: Translation and Commentary (NONE)
Chinese Esoteric Buddhism - Wikipedia
Hung-jan was apparently the first of the Patriarchs to have any large following, for it is said that he presided over a group of some five hundred monks in a monastery on the Yellow Plum Mountain (Wang-mei Shan) at the eastern end of modern Hupeh, He is, however, much overshadowed by his immediate successor, Hui-neng (637–713), whose life and teach
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The spiritual descendants of Huai-jang and Hsing-ssu live on today as the two principal schools of Zen in Japan, the Rinzai and the Soto. In the two centuries following the death of Hui-neng the proliferation of lines of descent and schools of Zen is quite complex, and we need do no more than consider some of the more influential individuals.24 The
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his draft fell to Mi-t’uo-shan, a monk from the Silk Road kingdom of Tokhara, who was assisted by the Chinese monks Fu-li and Fa-tsang.