Dharma (? ~536)
Dharma is from Tianzhu (India). In the first year of Liang Datong (527), he landed in Guangzhou and spread Buddhism in China. When Dharma crossed the Yangtze River into the Northern Wei Dynasty, he first visited Luoyang, then went to Shaolin Temple and stayed in a cave on Wuru Peak for nine years. Based on Mahayana doctrine and China spirit, he initiated Zen in China, and was regarded as the ancestor. Among many seekers, Dharma chose to pass on his mantle to Hui Ke. In the third year of Tian Ping in the Eastern Wei Dynasty (536), Dharma died, was buried in Xiong 'er Mountain and stood in Ding Lin Temple.
There are seven methods of transmitting lanterns: four-line view, blood view, understanding view, disfigurement view, peace of mind view, unintentional view, absolute view and Zen view.
Second, the second ancestor master Hui Ke
Hui Ke (487-593)
Monk Hui Ke is the second ancestor of Zen in China. Common surname Ji, Tiger Prison (now county) people. When he was a Confucian scholar, he read widely and studied Laozi and Zhuangzi. After becoming a monk, he learned three Tibetan scriptures. When he was about forty years old, he met Dharma, a Tianzhu monk who was traveling in Luo Song (now Songshan, Henan), and made him a teacher. Hui Ke studied Buddhism for six years and studied the purpose of a journey. After Dharma was silent, he kept a low profile near the Yellow River. However, due to his fame in Beijing in his early years, many Taoist priests came to Taoist temples before, so please be a teacher. He always shows his mind to the public, so he has won a wide reputation.
The book of lanterns: on the essentials of cultivating the mind and showing the layman.
Third, Master Sanzu Sangshen.
Three ancestors of Zen (? -606)
Also a monk, a monk, etc. Zen Monks in Sui Dynasty
I don't know who the owner of Sanzu is. At first, I worshipped my second ancestor in white, who was spread step by step and hid in Wangong Mountain in Zhou Shu. After Emperor Wu of Zhou destroyed the Buddha, his ancestors came to Sikong Mountain, Taihu County, and lived in an impermanent place for more than ten years. In the twelfth year of Emperor Kai of Sui Dynasty, he was still a child. He preached Buddhism and Taoism. After playing in Luofu Mountain for two years, I returned to the old site. After more than a month, the gentry rushed to set up a big sandalwood supply. Grandfather made an announcement for the four people, and folded his hands under the Fa Hui tree. That is, in the second year of Yang Di the Great's great cause, Bing Yin was also on October 15th. Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty was a wise Zen master and a tower of silence. Before becoming a monk, he suffered from wind disease, but he recovered, but his hair fell off completely and could not be recovered. Therefore, Zhou Shuren called her a lady with red hair.
The book of light: the inscription of faith
Four or four ancestors' Taoist masters
Quad channel (580-65 1)
The common surname is Sima, a native of Hanoi (where he lives in Qinyang, Henan). He became a monk as a teacher. In the 13th year of the Great Cause of Sui Dynasty (6 17), he led his disciples to Jizhou (Ji 'an, Jiangxi Province) and later to Huangmeitou Mountain (later renamed Shuangfeng Mountain) in Qi State, and established his own school style. He resigned from the invitation of the Tang Dynasty many times and taught in Anjushan for more than 30 years, with more than 500 disciples. Diplomatic relations with Hongren, Dongshan practice, Jinling Niutou Zen practice merged with Taoism. Dharma Buddhism spread to the heart of Taoism and formed a certain scale, and Zen thought also developed greatly. Buddhism is taught by the theory of mind and nature in the Lengga, and it is also integrated with Prajna, but Buddhism has not demonstrated this in theory. Tao Xin further explores and develops the combination of Prajna and Lengga in theory, and its proposal is free.
Chuandeng Book: When you enter the Tao, you should feel at ease to facilitate your practice, and show the Zen master's French in the tauren's legal capacity.
May 5th ancestor, Master Hong Ren.
Hongren (60 1—674)
In the first year of Sui Renshou (60 1), he was born in Huangmei, Hubei Province, and his common name was Zhou. At the age of seven, he became a monk from Sizu Daoxin (580-65 1). At the age of thirteen, he was officially shaved as a monk. Work under the Taoist school during the day and meditate at night. Taoism and belief often test him gradually with the purpose of Zen, and he realizes Taoism by touching things, thus achieving the Zen method of Taoism and belief. In the third year of Yonghui (65 1), clothes were sent to him by letter payment. In September of the same year, Daoxin died and he succeeded to the throne. Later people called him the fifth ancestor of Zen. Because more and more people came from all directions to study, another Dojo named Dongshan Temple was built in Fengmaoshan, east of Shuangfeng Mountain, calling his Zen Buddhism Dongshan Dharma.
The law of light transmission: the highest theory
Master Huineng of Six Ancestors
Six ancestors Huineng
Huineng (638~7 13) was a monk in the Tang Dynasty. Six ancestors of Zen in China. Well done. The common surname is Lu He (now Daxing, Beijing). The teenager was exiled to Xinzhou, Lingnan (now emerging in Guangdong) with his father. After his father died, he and his mother moved to the South China Sea. He is bitter and poor, and lives by selling firewood. At the age of 24, he was sponsored to study in the north. In the first year of Tang Longshuo (66 1), he met the five ancestors of Zen in Huangmei. The fifth ancestor asked his followers to work, chop wood and walk for more than eight months. At that time, Hong Ren was very old. He was eager to pass on the clothes and ordered his disciples to present them. At that time, there was a cloud in Shen Xiu: "I am a bodhi tree, and my heart is like a mirror platform. I always wipe hard to keep the dust off. " Hongren thought that he didn't see his nature and didn't pass on his clothes. Huineng recited a poem and wrote it on the wall: "Bodhi has no trees, and the mirror is not a stage. Nothing, then where did it cause dust? " Seeing this, Hong Ren called Huineng to the hall, told him a diamond sutra, and passed it on to him, and he returned to the south.
After Huineng returned to Guangdong, he went to Huozhuoji in Guangzhou on the eighth day of the first month of Yi Feng (676). According to the records of the stupa, when Master Yinzong talked about the Nirvana Sutra in the temple, "sometimes the wind blows, and a monk said," The wind blows; A monk said: move; Huineng said: "It's not the wind, it's not the movement, it's the heart of the benevolent." . When the Indian Sect heard of it, it gave it on the fifteenth day of the first month and gave it a full ring on the eighth day of February, so it had a pagoda relic.
Huineng said, "Wisdom is the foundation", and he also said, "First, establish a religion without thinking". The so-called mindlessness means that although there is awareness, it is often empty. His explanation of "epiphany" is: from the beginning, it was empty and it was epiphany. That is, no place to live is an epiphany; Today, those who are neutral about their own gradual progress, that is, on several floors, should make use of gradual progress, and ultimately they can't stand it. He also said: there is charming, hollow meditation, thinking nothing, calling himself big. This generation, can't say, for Jaken. He also said: "Buddhism is in the world and is inseparable from the world. Looking for bodhi in another life is like looking for rabbit horns. " It not only briefly explained that Zen originated from Prajna, but also laid a theoretical foundation for the development of Zen and had a great influence on the establishment of different schools of Zen masters later.
In the second year of Kaiyuan (7 13), Huineng died in Guoen Temple in Xinzhou. Buddhist teachers from Shao and Guang welcomed Huineng's body to Nanhua Temple in Caoxi, where it has been enshrined to this day.
Light transmission method: the formulas of the Six Ancestors Tanjing and Diamond Sutra.
Amitabha!