School: Yunmen | 993-1064 | Teacher: Xuedou Chongxian | Students: Huilin Zongben
One of Xuedou Chongxian's most important dharma heirs. He taught at Tianyi Monastery in Zhejiang and continued Xuedou's literary-poetic Chan. Through his student Huilin Zongben, who became abbot of the imperially sponsored Xiangguo Monastery in Kaifeng, his branch maintained a significant Yunmen institutional presence into the late 11th century.
References: Wikipedia (Yunmen school) | How Zen Became Zen
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