East Mountain Teaching denotes the teachings of the Fourth Ancestor Dayi Daoxin, his student and heir the Fifth Ancestor Daman Hongren, and their students of the Chan lineage of China.
East Mountain Teaching gets its name from the East Mountain Temple on 'Shuangfeng' ("Twin Peaks") of Huangmei. The East Mountain Temple was on the easternmost peak of the two. The label "East Mountain Teaching" (Chinese: 東山法門, dong shan fa men) is literally translated as the East Mountain Dharma Gate. It is also translated as the East Mountain School.
The two most famous disciples of Hongren, Dajian Huineng and Yuquan Shenxiu, both were referred as continuing the East Mountain teaching.
Read more about East Mountain Teaching: History, Teachings, Split in Northern and Southern School, Wider Influence of The East Mountain Teachings, See Also
Famous quotes containing the words east, mountain and/or teaching:
“The beds i’ th’ East are soft.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“We noticed several other sandy tracts in our voyage; and the course of the Merrimack can be traced from the nearest mountain by its yellow sand-banks, though the river itself is for the most part invisible. Lawsuits, as we hear, have in some cases grown out of these causes. Railroads have been made through certain irritable districts, breaking their sod, and so have set the sand to blowing, till it has converted fertile farms into deserts, and the company has had to pay the damages.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The discipline of the Old Testament may be summed up as a discipline teaching us to abhor and flee from sin; the discipline of the New Testament, as a discipline teaching us to die to it.”
—Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)