(867-928) Second generation successor after Xuefeng. he was the teacher of Fayan Wenyi, founder of the Fayan lineage of Chan. Dōgen praises Luohan for his saying, "The tenzo enters the kitchen." +
(d. 808) This famous lay adept, known as Layman Pang, was a student of Mazu, Shitou, and Yaoshan, among others. His whole family were practitioners, and his daughter also is especially noted as an adept. +
(700-790) Shitou was two generations after the Sixth Ancestor and three generations before Dongshan Liangjie, founder of the Sōtō lineage which Dōgen brought back to Japan from China. Shitou and Mazu, the two great teachers of their time, regularly sent students to each other. Shitou authored the long poem "Sandōkai" ["Unifying of Sameness and Difference"; "Cantongqi" in Chinese], which is still important in the Sōtō tradition. It is chanted daily in Sōtō training temples. He also wrote "Song of the Grass Hut." +
Community work, also calledfushin, during which everyone in the monastery, without exception, is expected to work. This tradition derives from Baizhang. 184n. 26 +
The five watches into which the time between sunset and sunrise are divided in monasteries. Traditionally, they vary seasonally with the length of the nighttime. Each of these is also divided into five shorter periods called ten. Katen time signals are given at the end of evening zazen, and the beginning and end of morning zazen, with a drum for ko and bell or chime for ten. In American training centers, and some Japanese monasteries, these signals are now given to indicate the clock hour for ko, and the third of the hour (first, middle, or last twenty minutes within the hour) for ten. 77n. 12 +
(986-1039) Student of Fenyang Shanzhao, and teacher of both Yangqi and Huanglong, founders of the two main branches of Linji/Rinzai Zen, Ciming taught at Shishuang Mountain, the temple established by Shishuang Qingzhu. +
(6th cent. B.C.E.) Also known as Anthapindika ["Giver of Food to the Unprotected"]. He was a wealthy patron of Shakyamuni Buddha in Shravasti who built the Jetavana vihara (monastery) in the Jeta garden for the order of monks. +
(780-865) Teacher of Xuefeng, he is famous for his animated style of teaching by shouts and striking his students. Previously a lecturer on the Diamond Sutra, he burnt his books after being awakened to Chan by an old woman selling tea cakes. +
(1002-69) Dharma heir of Ciming Quyuan and teacher of Huitang Zuxin, Huanglong is considered founder of one of the main branches of Rinzai Zen, from which Dōgen's first Zen teacher, Myōzen, was descended. +