Danxia Zichun (1064–1117) (; Hànyǔ pīnyīn Dānxiá Zichún; ) was a

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monk during the

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. He was born in a city called Zitong, which is in modern

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. He is buried in south of Mt Hong near the modern city of

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. While not a particularly notable monk himself, his three students,

Hongzhi Zhengjue Hongzhi Zhengjue (, ), also sometimes called Tiantong Zhengjue (; ) (1091–1157), was an influential Chinese Chan Buddhist monk who authored or compiled several influential texts. Hongzhi's conception of ''silent illumination'' is of particular ...

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, Huizhao Qingyu, were each especially famous during their lifetimes. He is the only student of

Furong Daokai Furong Daokai (1043-1118) (; ), was a Zen Buddhist monk during the Song Dynasty. He was born in a city known at the time as Yizhou, which is the present-day city of Linyi in the southern part of Shandong Province. Along with his fellow student ...

that has a collection of recorded sayings that has survived to the present. In these sayings, he advocated a silent illumination approach to seated meditation. For example, he is recorded as saying, "You must completely let go of all worldly concerns and sit totally still in the dry wood hall. You must die a turn and then in this death establish everything in the whole universe."

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