Huayan Zujue 眉州中巖華嚴祖覺

School: Linji | 1087–1150 | Teacher: Yuanwu Keqin

Zujue of Huayan at Zhongyan (1087–1150), styled Chi'an and surnamed Yang of Jiazhou. A scholar who once wrote polemics against Buddhism before converting, he ordained in 1115, awakened reading Fushan Yuanjian's essay, and became a dharma-heir of Yuanwu Keqin; he wrote a six-hundred-fascicle history of the buddhas and patriarchs along with commentaries on the Huayan and Diamond sutras.

References: DILA Authority A007870

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