Yinshan Can 隱山璨

Teacher: Liangfeng Kong, style Tui'an

Southern Song master 隱山璨, active around the Chunxi era (c. 1174), abbot of Fashi 法石 in Quanzhou. A native of Jinjiang in Quanzhou 泉之晉江. The 枯崖漫錄 describes him as blunt and hot-tempered, given to sharp criticism, saying of himself that he was 「業林一害」 (a blight on the monastic groves). His recorded sayings survive as 隱山璨和尚語 in the 續古尊宿語要 (X68).

References: DILA Authority

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