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

Zen Zen (; from Chinese: ''Chán''; in Korean: ''Sŏn'', and Vietnamese: ''Thiền'') is a Mahayana Buddhist tradition that developed in China during the Tang dynasty by blending Indian Mahayana Buddhism, particularly Yogacara and Madhyamaka phil ...

)

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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,

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, Zhenxie Qingliao, Huizhao Qingyu, were each especially famous during their lifetimes. He is the only student of Furong Daokai that has a collection of recorded sayings that has survived to the present. In these sayings, he advocated a

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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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