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The Yunmen school flourished into the early Song Dynasty, with particular influence on the upper classes, and eventually culminating in the compilation and writing of the Blue Cliff Record.
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Yunmen and school
Yunmen founded the Yunmen school, one of the five major schools of Chán ( Chinese Zen ).
Eighteen other koans were later discovered when a subsequent master of the Yunmen school, Xuetou Chongxian ( Setchō Jūken, 980-1052 CE ), published his Boze songgu, which contained one hundred " old cases " popular in his teaching line, in which the eighteen Yunmen koans were included.
The Yunmen School flourished as one of the Five Schools for about 300 years, after which it was absorbed into the Linji school towards the end of the Southern Song dynasty (~ 1127 CE ).
The Yunmen school continues through Master Hsu Yun, Fo Yuan, and Master Ming Zhao Shakya, who have disciples in America and abroad.
* Yunmen school, sect of Chinese Zen
Yunmen and into
Despite this, Yunmen is one of the greatest sources of " live words ", " old cases ", and paradoxical statements that would later evolve into the koan tradition, along with Zhaozhou ( Japanese: Jōshū Jūshin ).
Yunmen and with
Xuedou selected 82 of these from the Jingde Chuandeng Lu 《 景德傳燈錄 》 ( Jingde era Record of the Transmission of the Lamp ), with the remainder selected from the Yunmen Guanglu 《 雲門廣録 》 ( Extensive Record of Yunmen Wenyan ( 864 – 949 ).
After a few years studying with him, Yunmen did so, and received after several years, enlightenment.
One day, when Yunmen was 85 ( or 86 ), he composed a farewell letter to his patron, the new king of the Southern Han, and gave a final lecture to his monks, finishing with the statement:
Yunmen was renowned for his forceful and direct yet subtle teaching, often expressed through sudden shouts and blows with a staff, and for his wisdom and skill at oratory:
Yunmen and on
While Yunmen had received his teacher's seal and approval, he nevertheless did not become abbot, probably because his stay was only on the order of 4 or 5 years.
With his death, Yunmen became head priest of the Lingshu monastery on Mt.
All these visitors proved too distracting for Yunmen's taste, and in 923, he asked the king to aid him in building a new monastery on Mount Yunmen.
The king acquiesced, and five years later, at the age of 64, Yunmen began living in and teaching in the monastery on the mountain from which he took the name by which he is best known.
Yunmen and Blue
Eighteen koans in the Blue Cliff Recordinvolve Yunmen.
Yunmen and .
The name is derived from Yunmen monastery of Shaozhou where Yunmen was abbot.
Yunmen was born in the town of Jiaxing near Suzhou and southwest of Shanghai to the Zhang family, apparently in 864 CE.
His birth-year is uncertain ; the two memorial stele at the Yunmen monastery mention he was 86 years old when he died in 949 CE, which suggests that 864 is his birth year.
While a boy, Yunmen became a monk under a " commandment master " named Zhi Cheng in Jiaxing.
Daozong told Yunmen to visit the pre-eminent Zen master of the day, Xuefeng Yicun of Mt.
Hsiang-ku, in Fuzhou ( Fukushū ) in modern-day Fujian, and become his disciple, as Daozong was too old (~ 100 years old ) to further teach Yunmen.
When Yicun died, Yunmen began travelling and visited quite a number of monasteries, cementing his reputation as a Ch ' an master.
During a subsequent visit to the tomb of the Sixth Patriarch in Guangdong, Yunmen ended up joining ( c. 911 CE ) the monastery of Rumin Chanshi / Ling-shu Ju-min, who died in 918 CE.
The area of Southern China where Yunmen lived broke free during the rebellion of Huang Chao, a viceroy of the Liu family.
The ruler, Liu Yan, visited the monastery for Rumin's cremation ( as Liu often sought Rumin's advice ), and met Yunmen.
The front of the modern day Yunmen monastery.
While the king and some of Yunmen's disciples continued to try to give Yunmen more responsibilities and honors, Yunmen refused, and returned to his monastery.
Yunmen then sat in a full lotus posture and died.
Yunmen was succeeded as abbot by Dongshan Shouchu ( Japanese: Tōzan Shusho ; d. 900 ).
Yunmen mountain. How steep is Yün-mên's mountain!
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