Modern Scholarship
Very little documentation remains about his life. Information is usually limited to dates, names and general locations.
The only primary sources available are two collections of doctrine and lineage, T'su-t'ang-chi (Records from the Halls of the Patriarchs) and Chling-te-chum-teng-lu (Transmission of the Lamp). They both only list the name as having been generated from Tun-shan's connections to "T'sao", and they are equally ambiguous on most other facts.
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