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(771-853) A disciple of Baizhang Huaihai, Guishan was the founder, along with his disciple Yangshan Huiji, of one of the five lineages of classical Chinese Zen Buddhism, the Guiyang house (Igyō in Japanese). Guishan's "Admonitions" is an early warning against laxity in the Zen community. Praised by Dōgen as a former tenzo, he is referred to frequently in the Eihei Shingi. +
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(709-88) Two generations after the Sixth Ancestor Huineng, he was the great master of his time along with Shitou, and had 139 awakened disciples, including Baizhang and Nanquan. Mazu was an instigator of dynamic, animated Chan style. +
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(1st-2nd cent.?) Buddhist poet and teacher, considered the twelfth Indian ancestor in the Zen tradition, two generations before Nagarjuna. Amongst texts uncertainly, though traditionally, attributed to him are the early Mahayana classic, The Awakening of Faith, and "The Dharma of Serving your Teacher." +
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As in sōda, one of four terms for a monk that Dōgen commonly uses in Eihei Shingi. The others are shu, unsui, and biku. 53n. 22 +
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(910-90) A disciple of Yunmen cited by Dōgen as a model tenzo. +
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(2d-3d cent.) A great early exponent of Mahayana Buddhism in India and especially of the Madhyamika teaching, which minutely analyzed the implications of sunyata [relativity or emptiness] doctrine. Nagarjuna's teaching is so universally acclaimed that virtually all later Mahayana movements claim him as an ancestor; he is considered the fourteenth ancestor in the Zen lineage. +
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Same as kaidaijō. 80n. 29 +
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Wandering ascetic, from the Sanskrit dhuta, referring to ascetic practitioners. Originally the term referred to a set of twelve specific purifying practices, including always remaining outdoors, only taking one meal daily before noon, and never lying down. 186n.36 +
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(d. 606) The Third Ancestor of Chan, a leper who was later cured, he is said to have died standing up. The still-popular long teaching poem "Inscription on Faith in Mind" ("Shinjinmei" in Japanese), is attributed to him. +
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"Go up in the hall," i.e., to attend a formal lecture of the abbot, in which no text is used, although possibly starting off from a koan or phrase from a sutra. The term is also used for the abbot going to give the lecture. 190n. 60 +
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Japanese pronunciation for the usual Chinese translation of the Sanskrit anuttara samyak sambodhi, the unsurpassed, complete perfect enlightenment of a buddha. 100n. 4 +
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Parinirvana, literally extinction and crossing over, referring to a buddha's passing into the ultimate state of nirvana upon death. 198n. 124 +
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(1184-1225) Dharma successor of Eisai, he was Dōgen's Japanese teacher and friend, who accompanied Dōgen to China and died there while staying at the Tiantong Monastery. Dōgen praised him highly. +
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Used for the Sanskrit tathata, suchness or thusness, i.e., ultimate reality. 194n. 93 +
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(834-98) The teacher of Qingfeng Zhuanchu. +
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Another term for shuso [head monk], or for someone who has been a shuso. 190n. 62 +
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The wooden cabinets at the foot of each tan in the sōdō, with two large shelves for monks to store their bedding and some personal items. 77n. 13 +
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(6th cent. B.C.E.) Blind disciple of Shakyamuni. Once he fell asleep during Shakyamuni's lecture, then vowed never to sleep again. Fulfilling this vow, he ruined his eyesight but also developed the heavenly eye with the supernatural power to see past and future. +
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Direction, side, method, or person. 196n. 113 +
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Demonic inclination, literally "the demons' faction"; those who are possessed by the demons of ego and so are blind to reality. 194n. 89 +
