Ch’an and Zen teaching 009108881X

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Ch'an and Zen Teaching SECOND SERIES

Lu K'uanYu (CHARLESLUI ALA : Truth-plot, holy site, place of enlightenment ; the place where the Buddha attained enlightenment. B O D HI S ATTV A : A Mahayanist seeking enlightenment to enlighten others ; he is devoid of egoism and devoted to helping all living beings . BON : A pre-buddhistic religion of Tibet.

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The Enlightened One ; the first o f the Triple Gem, the second being Dharma, and the third, Sangha. . BUDDHAKAYA : Body of Buddha, in the enjoyment of the highest samadhi bliss. cH' AN : Name of mind ; Ch' an being name and mind being substance ; wrongly interpreted as meditation, abstraction, or dhyana in Sanskrit. Jap. Zen.

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Ch' an master Hui Leng of Ch'ang Ch'ing, disciple of Hsueh Feng ; died in 93 2 at the age of seventy-nine.

CH' ANG cH'ING :

CHAO { AND ) YUNG:

A Ch'an master's application of his wisdom to 'shine upon' and probe his student's developed potentiality, and performance ofhis enlighten­ ing function to cause the latter's awakening. cH ' EN TSUN su : See Mu Chou. CHEN YIN G : See Tan Yuan. CHI HSIEN : See Hsiang Yen. CHI HSIEN : See Kuan Ch' i. CHIA SHAN: An eminent Ch' an master, disciple of the Boat Monk ; died in 8 8 I . CHIH CHE : The Fourth Patriarch o f the T'ien T'ai {Jap. Tendai) S chool. CHIH 1 : See K'e Fu. CHIH SHENG : See Ling Shu. CHIH YUEH LU : Full name is ' Shui Yueh Chai Chih Yueh Lu' or 'Finger Pointing at the Moon', a collection of Ch' an texts compiled in 1602 - IO Vols. cH'ING YUAN : Ch'an Master Hsing Szu of Ch'ing Yuan mountain ; Dharma successor of the Sixth Patriarch and teacher of Shih T' ou ; died in 741 . See Genealogical Chart, page 56. CHU YU : Disciple of Nan Chuan ; died in the ninth century. cH'uAN Huo : See Yen T'ou. cH ' UAN TENG LU: Full title is 'Ching Te Ch'uan Teng Lu' or 'The Transmission of the Lamp', a collection of Ch'an texts compiled in the Ching Te reign ( 1004-7), 14 Vols. cH'uNG HSIN : See Lung T'an. DANAPATI : Almsgiver, a patron who supports a monk or a monastery. DEVA : The gods, the highest incarnations of the six worlds of existence. DEVA-MARA : Heavenly demons, one of the four maras who dwells in the sixth heaven and who constantly obstructs the Buddha Dharma and its followers. DHARA?:"i : See Mantra. DHARMA : Law, truth, religion, doctrine, thing, anything Buddhist. It connotes Buddhism as the perfect religion. It has the second place in the Triratna or Triple Gem. DHARMA-DHATu: Dharma realm ; the unifying underlying spiritual reality, regarded as the ground or cause of all things, the absolute from which all proceeds. DHARMA DOOR : The doctrine of Buddha regarded as the door to enlightenment ; a method ; any school. DHARMA EYE : Spiritual eye which is able to penetrate all things. DHARMAKAYA : Body in its essential nature, or that of Buddha as such. Only Buddhas can see it. DHARMA NATURE : The nature underlying all things, the Bhiitatathata. DHUTA : An ascetic ; a monk engaged in austerities.

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DIVY ACAK� us : form realm.

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Deva vision, instantaneous view of anything everywhere in the

DIVYA SROTA : Ability to hear any sound anywhere. FA KUANG: A Ch' an master and friend of Han Shan in the sixteenth century. FA YEN : Ch' an master Wen I, alias Fa Yen, a disciple of Kuei Ch'en and founder

of the Fa Yen Sect (Jap. Hogen Zen) ; died in 958. (See Genealogical Chart, page 56.) FA YEN SECT: One of the five Ch' an sects of China (Jap. Hogen Zen). PU: Buddha, the Enlightened One. GATH.A: Chant, poem, stanza. GU?:lA : Dust; small particles ; molecules, atoms, exhalations ; element or matter, which is considered as defilement ; an active conditioned principle in nature, minute, subtle and defiling to pure mind ; impurities. The six gm::ias are the six sense-data: sight, sound, smell, taste, touch and dharma. ' Silly Mountain', a name adopted by Ch'an Master Te Ch'ing who was responsible for the revival of the Ch' an sect in China in the Ming dynasty. Born in 1 546 and died in 1623 . HiNAYANA: ' Small Vehicle' , also called 'Half-word', preliminary teaching given by the B uddha to his disciples who were still not qualified for the Mahayana doctrines, called 'Whole-word'. HSI cH ' IEN : See Shih T'ou. HSI YUN : See Huang Po. HSIANG YEN : Ch'an master Chi Hsien of Hsiang Yen and disciple of Kuei Shan ; died in 914 at the age of ninety-six. HSING K ' UNG : See Shih Shuang. HSING s z u : See Ch'ing Yuan. HSU YUN : Alias Te Ch'ing, a well-known Ch'an master, regarded as the right Dharma eye of the present generation ; born in 1 840 and died on 1 3 October 1959 in his 12oth year at the Dharma age of IOI . HSU AN CHIEN : See Te Shan. HSUAN CHUEH : See Yung Chia. HSUAN SHA: Ch'a.n Master Shih Pei of Hsuan Sha mountain ; died in 908 at the age of seventy-four. (See Genealogical Chart, page 5 6.) HSUEH FENG: Ch'an Master I Ts'un of Hsueh Feng, teacher of Yun Men ; died in 909 in his eighty-seventh year. (See Genealogical Chart, page 56.)

HAN SHAN:

Literally a word's, or thought's, head ; ante-word or ante-thought; the mind before it is stirred by a thought. A technique devised by enlightened masters who taught their disciples to tum inwards 'the light' on the mind for the purpose of stopping all thoughts to attain singleness of mind and thereby realize it for the perception of their self-nature. HUAI HAI : See Pai Chang. HUAI JANG : See Nan Yo. HUANG PO : Master Hsi Yun of Huang Po mountain ; Dharma successor of Pai Chang and teacher of Lin Chi ; died in the Ta Chung reign (847-59). (See Genealogical Chart, page 56.) HUI CHI : See Yang Shan. HUI CHU OF K OREA : A Korean Ch'an Master in the tenth century. HUI CHUN G : See Nan Yang.

HUA T'ou :

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HUI JAN : See S an Sheng. HUI K ' o : The Second Chinese

Patriarch of the Ch' an Sect ; Dharma successor of Bodhidharma ; died at the end of the sixth century. HUI LENG : See ch ang Ch ing. . . . . , . HUI NENG : The Sixth Chmese Patriarch of the Ch an Sect ; died m 713 m his seventy-sixth year. . HUNG JEN : The Fifth Chinese Patriarch ; he stayed at Huang Mei and was the te:i.cher of Hui Neng, the Sixth Patriarch ; died 675-6 at the age of seventy-four.

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I HSUAN: See Lin Chi. I Ts' uN : See Hsueh Feng. INDRA : or Sakra, the ruler of the thirty-three heavens. KALPA : The period of time between the creation, destruction

and recreation of a world or universe ; aeon . KARMA : Moral action causing future retribution, and either good or evil transmigration. K'E FU : Alias Chih I, a disciple of Lin Chi ; died in the ninth century. KLESA: Worry, anxiety, trouble, distress and whatever causes them. K �AJ:'A: The shortest measure of time ; 60 k�al).as equal one finger-snap, 90 a thought, 4,500 a minute. K�ANTl : The third pararnita, or patience, endurance in any circumstance. KUAN cH ' I : Ch' an Master Chi Hsien of Kuan Ch'i, Dharma successor of Lin Chi and Mo Shan ; died in 895. KUANG JEN: See Shu Shan. KUEI cH'EN : See Lo Han. KUEI SHAN: Ch'an Master Ling Yu of Kuei Shan ; Dharma successor of Pai Chang and teacher of Yang Shan. Both founded the Kuei Yang Sect (Jap. Ikyo Zen) ; died in 8 53 at the age of eighty-three. (See Genealogical Chart, page 56. KUEI YANG SECT : A Ch'an Sect founded by Kuei Shan and his disciple Yang Shan ; one of the five Ch' an sects of China . (Jap. Ikyo Zen . ) (See Genealogical Chart, page 56. KUNG AN: Jap. koan ; dossier, case-record, public laws and regulations enforced for settling disputes and maintaining law and order. Likewise, all instructions given by enlightened masters to their students are kung an, or concurrent causes. The meaning of a kung an is irrevocable for it is valid as the law. LAK�AJ:'A : Form, appearance, indication, sign, aspect and characteristic. LIANG CHIAI : See Tung Shan. LIN cm : Ch'an Master I Hsuan of Lin Chi, disciple of Huang Po and founder of the Lin Chi Sect (Jap. Rinzai Zen), one of the five Ch' an Sects of China ; died in 867. (See Genealogical Chart, page 56.

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LING SHU: Ch' an master Chih Sheng of Ling Shu in the ninth century. LING Yu: See Kuei Shan. LO HAN : Ch' an Master Kuei Ch'en of Lo Han temple ; disciple of Hsuan Sha and teacher of Fa Yen ; died in 936 at the age of sixty-two. (Se� Genealogical Chart, page 56.) LOTUS SUTRA : Saddharma-plll). c;larika-siitra, expounded by the Buddha, before the Mahapari-nirvir).a-siitra in the last of the five periods of His teaching. Ch'an Master Yuan An of Lo P'u, disciple of Chia Shan ; died in 925 .

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LU TS U : Disciple of Chi Hsien of Kuan Ch' i ; died in the ninth century. LUNG T'AN : Ch'an Master Ch'ung Hsin of Lung T'an, Dharma successor

of Tao Wu of T'ien Huang monastery and teacher of Te Shan ; died in the ninth century. (See Genealogical Chart, page 56. MA Ku: Disciple of Chao Chou in the ninth century .

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Alias Tao I of Kiangsi province ; Dharma successor of Huai Jang of Nan Yo mountain and teacher of Pai Chang ; died in 788. (See Genealogical Chart, page 56. MAHABRAHMAN : Regarded as ruler over all the heavens of form, these heavens being of threefold form : Brahma (lord), Brahm2-purohitas (ministers) and Brahma-pari�adyas (people). Mahabrahman vowed to protect the Buddha Dharma . MAHAKALP A : The great kalpa, from the beginning of a universe till it is destroyed and another begins in its place. A great kalpa is calculated as eighty small kalpas and to last 1 ,347,000,000 years. MAHA KA h AP A : A Brahmin of Magadha, disciple of the Buddha, to whom was handed down the mind dharma, outside of Scriptures ; the First Patriarch of the Ch' an Sect ; accredited with supervising the first compilation of the Buddha's sermons .

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