Yuelin Zhen 岳林真

Teacher: Yuwang Tanzhen

Song Chan master of Yuelin in Mingzhou, a dharma heir of Zhen of Ayuwang. Known from a sermon that turns the old saying 'at the turn of autumn, when the summer retreat ends, thirty blows are due' onto the World-Honoured One holding up the flower and Kasyapa's smile: 'just then, thirty blows would have been in order — why? In a time of peace, to raise weapons.'

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